The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-07
MAN-PowER OF THE WAR
rom The Augusta Chronicle:

fhoih ihe augusta CnrOnlcle:
Much has been said and written
about the man-power of the war. Now
that the war is over, and we can talk
without guardian of our speech, in
the form of a censor, and as statis-
ticians will doubtless have the figures
of all countries compiled accurately
to date, il is interesting to see the
summary of the wars actual losses.
Interesting figures are shown, on
the subject Of American man-power,
and the losses of all nations. Here
they are. They are worth remember
ing. Lieut.. Col. Ayers of the gener-
al staff has compiled them:
Total armed forces, including army
navy, marine corps, 4,80O,OO0.
Total men in the army 100000.
Men who went overseas 2,086,0O0.
Men who fought in France $780,
600.
Total registered in draft 24,234,O21.
Total draft inductions 2,S10,296.
Cost of war to April 80, 1919, $21,-
$50, 100000.
Battles fought by American troops
13.
Days of battle 200.
Days of duration of Meuse-Argonne
battle At.
American battle-deaths IN war 49,
900.
American wounded in war 2S6, 900.
American deaths from disease Sc,
99l.
Total deaths in the army 112,422.
Under the head of Sources of the
Army" the report shows that 13 per
cent came from the regular army, 10
per cent from the national guard, and
II per cent from the draft
From the same source facts are
given that the total battlc-deaths for
the belligerents totaled 7,45O,O0O.;
divided as folowc:
Russia 100000.
Germany 100000.
France 1,385,0O0.
Austria 100000.
Italy 100000.
Turkey 25O,OOO.
Serbia. and Montenegro 1000
Belgium 100000.
Roumania 10000.
Bulgaria 100000.
United States 4S,9OO~
Greece 1000.
Portugal 1000.
The largest loss sustained by the
| Americans was in the forty-seven-day
battle in the Meusc- -Argonne offensive
| where j 0 per cent Of the men engaged
| were either killed or wounded.
While we were in the fighting for
the shortest period of any country
which had any large force our losses
were nominal.
But while our losses in men was
| small, considering the number we had
| in France, our expenditures were tre-
mendous. We spent at Il greater
rate than any other nation, and, ap-
parently to greater effect. The money
we put into the conflict seemed to
mean u saving Of man-powcr, and
earlier collapse of the enemy, SO that
| while the cost was prodigious none of
us ought to regret the loss in money,
| for that was merely an investment AN
| insurance against great conhagration
which threatened to destroy us en-
| tirely.
We are not only left with our wealth
| our lives, our freedom, our democra-
| tic govcrnment-but we are left in
| the most cnviablc situation in which
Tany nation on earth has ever found
itself. We have been given ar oppor-
tunity to do things that no nation
has ever had opportunity of doing,
and all that we have spent is but a
good investment, and will return to
US many fold.
| But to neglect any present duty is
folly, and to fail to grasp the present
opportunity of progress, prosperity,
| peace and human uplift is little less
| than criminal.
| We made our place and position in
the war, the idcalist place. We asked
for nothing and took nothing at the
peace table.
But we are out of the idealist pc
| riod of our international activities
now, and should be wholly practical
| and entirely common-sense in our
| handling of duties that have come to
us for attention.
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