The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-04
MEDICAL CORPS
 WELL ORGANIZED
 ID AID INJURED

. eastward flow of America's fighting millions-the greatest trans-oceanic troop movement ever known brought the American people face to face with the tragedy of the casualty lists.
 General Pershing's announcement that more than 5S,OOO of the Expe- ditionary Forces had given their lives in the nations cause and that 14,00O others, exclusive of prisoners were missing, created a profound impression, but the human touch of almost 19O,0OO wounded, 16,OOO of whom already have been re- turned in various stages of helpless ness to their native shores, promises to give the country it's first real appreciation of the sacrifices of it's sons who followed the flag on for eign soil.
 The method of their debarkation denies to the homecoming wounded the popular honors paid their com rades in full health But the war department, operating along lines intended to give the lie to the pro- verbal 'ingratitude of Govern ment," has arranged for medical recreational and educational atten- tion whose aim is to restore these maimed heroes, as fully as possible, 1 to physical comfort and financial independence.
 ! From the day of their arrival at i New York or Newport News, the ports of debarkation, to their re- entrance into civilian lift, host of Good Samaritans- army doctors, nurses and orderlies and workers of the American Red Cross-will minister to these sufferers from a ruthless enemy's engines of war. i Harbor hospital boats, debarkaton hospitals, hospital trains and gen eral hospitals for reconstruction or convalescence form chain of serv- ice linking the westward bound fleets of transports with the homes of the wounded. And in this serv- ice the medical debarkation corps, suddenly thrust into the foreground of publicity by the collapse of the Central Powers, plays an important and picturesque part.
 The end of the war found the port medical authorities prepared to shoulder the heavy burden laid upon them. During nineteen months of American participation in the conflict they had maintained an authorization hospital service, treat ing the comparatively rare cases of illness among troops ready to go overseas. When American forces entered the trenches small groups , of wounded, evacuated from hospi- 1 tals in France, began to filter thru the service on this side of the At lantic With this experence accen- tuated by the lessons of the Allied governments in repatriating their wounded, the debarkation system was put in readiness for the re- ception of injured men at the rate of 1000 to 15,OO0 month. During the war and five weeks period following the signing of the armistice, approximately 11,5O0 wounded had been received at New York and 4,500 at Newport News. And the authorities were prepared, on official advices from Washington, to handle 5O,OOO cases in the next four months.
 The army embarkation service at New York, which sent three fourths of the nations 100000 men over seas, is expected to debark major ity of the returning forces, and the westward flow of wounded also will be directed here, with some diver sion to Newport News and possibly later on, to Boston. To carry on the work at this port the medical department has personnel of 7,3O6 greater than the entire army medical corps when the United