The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-09-04
FIGURES OF AMERICAS PART in
WAR PASS ALL FORMER RECORDS
COL Leonard Ayers Prepares Remarkable Statistical Summary
Showing Comparative Costs in Men, Money and Material
for All the Countries Engaged-Cost to the United
States Is $22 100000.

and something less than one-fifth of
the expenditures of the allied side.
The total battle deaths of all ma
lions 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 % 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 a
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.
OF every 100 Americans who went
over 40 went in British ships, 40 in
American ships, three in Italian, two
in French and one in Russian ship
! ping under English control.
American cargo ships averaged one
complete trip every 20 days and troop
SHIPS one complete trip every 80 days.
The cargo fleet was almost entirely
American. It reached the size of p
100000 lightweight tons, and carried
to Europe about 100000 tons of
cargo.
Work of Engineers.
American engineers built in France
SO new ship berths, LOCO miles of
standard gauge track and 538 miles of
narrow gauge track.
The signal corps strung in France
Of fn1n
graph wire.
Prior to the armistice 10000 trucks
were shipped to the forces in France.
Construction projects in the United
States cost twice as much as the Pana-
ma canal, and construction overseas
was on nearly twice as large scale.
The entire number of American ma
chine guns produced to the end OF 1915
was $4,000.
The Browning machine guns are be-
lieved to be more effective than the
corresponding weapons used in any
other army.
American production of rifle ammu-
milton amounted to approximately 81
500,000,000 rounds, of which $4,000
600 rounds were shipped overseas.
The number of rounds Of complete
artillery ammunition produced in
American plants was in excess of 90
100000, compared with 100000
rounds secured from the French and
British.
In the first 20 months after the dec
laration of war by each country the
British did better than the United
States in the production of light artil-
lery, and the United States excelled
them in producing heavy artillery and
both light and heavy ammunition.
At the end of the war American pro-
duction of smokeless powder was 40
per cent greater than the French and
British production combined. The
American production of high explo-
sives was 40 per cent greater than
Great Britain's and nearly double that
OF France.
Out Of every hundred days that