The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-09-27

"iiN 9oihctAhuS less imam Quentin OF
the expenditures of the allied side.
The total battle deaths of all ma
tons In this war were greater than all
deaths in all the wars in the previous
hundred years.
Russian battle deaths were "a times
as heavy as. those of the United
states, those of Germany 80 times as
great, France IS times and the Brit
ish Is times as large.
Infantry Suffered Most.
In the American army the casualty
rate In the infantry was higher than
IN any other service, and that for Off
GERS was higher than for men.
For every man killed in battle seven
were wounded.
Five out of every six men sent to
hospitals on account of wounds were
cured and returned to duty.
Pneumonia killed more soldiers than
were killed in battle. Meningitis was
the next most serious disease.
The British sent more men to
France in their first year of war than
we did in our first year, but it took
England three years to reach n
strength of 100000 men in France.
and the United States accomplished it
In one-half of that time
In the physical examinations the
states of the middle West made the
best showing. Country boys did better
than city boys. white better than col
ored and native better than foreign
born.
Most of the troops who sailed for
France left New York. Half of them
landed In England and the other half
in France.
or every 100 Americans who went
over 40 went in British ships, 45 In
American ships, three in Italian, two
in French and one in Russian ship
ping under English control.
American cargo ships averaged one
trip every 70 days and troop
ships one complete trip every 35 days.
The cargo fleet was almost entirely
American. 1t reached the size of q
100000 lightweight tons, and carried
to Europe about 100000 tons of
cargo.
Work Of Engineers.
American engineers built in France |
So new ship berths, 1000 miles of
standard gauge track and 53S miles of |
barrow gauge track.
The signal corps strung in France |
100000 miles of telephone and tele- |
graph wire.
Prior to the armistice 10000 trucks
we're shipped to the forces In France.
Construction projects in the United
States cost twice as much as the Pana-
ma canal, and construction overseas
vas on nearly twice as large a scale.
The entire number Of American ma
hine guns produced to the end of 1918
vas 227,OOO.
The Browning machine guns are be-
ieved to be more defective than the
corresponding weapons used In any
thef army.
American production Of rife ammu-
ifion amounted to approximately g.
OO, OO0, 600 rounds. Of which 1906, OOO,-
90 rounds were shipped overseas.
The number of rounds of complete
rtillery ammunition produced In
american plants was In excess of 90
10000, compared with 100000
ounds secured from the French and
British.
In the first 20 months after the dec
aration Of war by each country the
British did better than the United
tates in the production Of light artil-
.ry, and the United States excelled
hem In producing heavy artillery and
9th light and heavy ammunition.
At the end Of the war American pro- i,
uction Of smokeless powder was 40
er cent greater than the French and
ritish production combined. The
merican production Of high explo-
YES was 40 per cent greater than
reat Britain's and nearly double that
France.
Out of every hundred days that :