The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-09-26

ana something less th0n One-nItn Oh
the expenditures Of the allied side.
The total battle deaths of all na-
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 81 times as
great. France % times and the Brit.
tsh 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 a
strength Of 2.OOO.OOO men in France.
and the United States accomplished 1t
in one-lalf 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.
OF every 100 Americans who went
over. 10 went in British ships. As in
American ships. three IN Italian, two
in French and one in Russian ship
iping under English control.
American cargo ships averaged one
complete trip every 20 days and troop
ships one complete trip every 3o days
The cargo feet was almost entirely
American. 1t reached the size of .,
6OOOW lightweight tons. and carried
to Europe about 7,5OO,OOO tons OF
cargo.
Work Of Engineers.
: American engineers built in France
81 new ship berths. 1000 miles OF
standard gauge track and 53S miles OF
narrow gauge track.
The signal corps strung In France
100000 miles of telephone and tele
graph wire.
Prior to the nrmistice 10000 truck
;. were shipped to the forces in France
: Construction projects in the Unitet
! States cost twice as much as the Pana
= ma canal, and construction oversee
was on nearly twice as large Il scale.
: The entire number of American ma
{ chine guns produced to the end of l0lt
: was 227,OOO.
+ The Browning machine guns are he
! lieved to he more effective than tn
s corresponding weapons used in an
other army.
American production Of rifle amm,l
milton amounted to approximately 3
; 5OO.O0O.OOO rounds. of which 800. 600
O0O rounds were shipped overseas.
The number of rounds Of complet
! artillery ammunition produced I
American plants was in excess of 20
! 100000, compared with 100000
! rounds secured from the French an
British.
! In the first 20 months after the de,
( laration Of war by each country tn
( British did better than the Unite
States in the production Of light artl
{ lery. and the United States excelle
{ them in producing heavy artillery an
! both light and heavy ammunition.
: At the end of the war American pr
: ductiOn Of smOkeless powder was
) per cent greater than the French an
J British production combined. I'll
! American production Of high expl
sives was 40 per cent greater tina
! Great Britain's and nearly double til,
! of France.
Out Of every hundred days tn;