The Carlisle independent., 1918-04-11
UNITED STATES AT
 MAR ONE YEAR
Expansion of Armed Forces Out standing Feature of Period.
l,528,924 MEN IN THE ARMY
Official Review of Twelve Months Activities Shows What Various Departments of Government
 Have Done.

The United States has been an ac- tive participant in the great world war for oae year. At the opening of the second year the government commit tee CD public information has issued a review of the first twelve months Of hostiiitieS, showing what has been done by various branches of the gov ernment to place the United States in 8 position to play an effective part in the ultimate defeat of Germany and her allies. The committee on public information says that all statements contained in the following summary of the review are authorized by the war deparsnent. navy department, United States shipping board and treasury department
 The outstanding feature of the first year of war, it is pointed out in the review, has been the transfor- nation of the standing army and Ma tionxl Guard composed of 9,524 off cers and 202.510 m>a into a fighting force that now aggregates 123, ,S01 of Aeers and 1,52S, ,924 enlisted men.
 A statement of the adjutant general shows that the regular army which in April. 1917, comprised 5,791 officers and 121, ,797 men, now s made up of 1o,Ge8 officers and 503. .l42 men. The National Guard in April, 1917, inelud ed 3.T33 officers and T6,T13 men, while now it comprises 16 S93 officers and 431 .5S3 men. The reserve corps in serSies one year ago included 1000 men. Now it includes 96,210 officers and T7,36o men. The National army, which did not exist one year ago. now includes 516,S39 men.
 A substantial vanguard (military expsdiency prohibiting publication of actual numbers) of this army is meet Ing the enemy in France today or is en- eamped there awaiting the call to the trenches In 16 cant0nments and 16 camps and on numerous aviation fields aRd tn a variety of other schools in all parts of the United States the men of the remaining army are hardening and uaining for their part in the great contest overseas.
 Behind the activities Of this vast force lies 8 great industry organized to produce an adequate supply of mu- nitions, equipment, and provisions, and 10 provide transportation 70 the firing line, almost every branch of essential industry of the country hay Ing been drawn upon to produce these ss,a4nriaI -o-t,i irsroartS
 Expeditionsry Forces.
 Military necessity particularly for bids detailed review of the activities Of the American expedidonary forces.
 General Pershing and his staff ar rived in Paris on June II, 1917, 69 days after the declaration of war. The first American troops arrived in France on June 26. On July i, in eel ebration of our natal day and a new fight for liberty, American troops pa raded the streets of Paris and were greefea as the forerunners of great American armies and vast quantities of supplies and ammunitions.
 Ca October 10, 1917, 1S7 days after the war was declared, American sol diers went on the firing line. In Jan uary American soldiers took over per msnently 2 part of the line as an American sector, and this line is grad uaTly lengthening.
 Behind the fighting line in France the American forces have scientifically prepared a groundwork Of camps. com muniestious. supply bases. and works n anticipation of operations by the fan force of the army. They are building and have built railroads, hos pitals. ordnance bases. and docks in France They have constructed i'm mease barracks, erected sawmiHs re- elafned agricultural lands. and car ried forward many incidental enter ,,rises
 The construction of an ordnance Ease in France. costing 23,00000o, is nov well under way. Great quantities of material used in the foreign con str1ction work have been shipped from the United States-from fabricated ironwork for an ordnance shop to nails and crossties for railroads, and even the piles to build docks.
 All the while there has been fairly even flow Of men and materials from the United States to France. The men h the trenches, back of the lines. on the construction projects, and in the hospitals have been steadily supplied Our losses St sea, in men and mate rials, have been gratifyingly small. The greatest single loss occurred on February 5. when the British ship Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk. The bodies of IA soldiers. en route 10 FrAncs, have been found and 5 others wsrs still missing on March 16.
 Te secure an adequate number of epanzstsrt officers to lead the new armies various plans were devised. I've classes at West Point were grad u1eed in advance of the usual gradu- axlng dates and special examinations were held in various parts of the eoun- rry fcg appointments from civil life.