The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-08-22

and something less than one-tifth or
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 |
us heavy as those of the United |
States, those Of Germany 81 times as
great, France % times aud 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 1t took
England three years to reach Il
strength of 100000 men in France,
and the United States accomplished 1t
in one-half Of that time.
In the physical eSaminatioks 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, As 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 70 days and troor
ships one complete trip every IS days
The cargo fleet was almost entirel!
American. 1t reached the size Of 2,
600, 600 lightweight tons, and carried
to Europe about 100000 tons O
cargo.
Work Of Engineers.
American engineers built in Franc
SO new ship berths. 1000 miles o
standard gauge track and 53S miles o
narrow gauge track.
The signal corps strung In Franc
100000 miles of telephone and tele
graph wire.
g Prior to the armistice 10000 truck
= were shipped to the forces in France
: Construction projects in the Unite
q States cost twice as much as the Pans
, ma canal, and construction oversee
was on nearly twice as large scale.
= The entire number of American ms
r chine guns produced to the end Of 191
- was 227 900.
+ The Browning machine guns are b.
I lieved to be more effective than II
{ corresponding weapons used in an
other army.
I American production Of rifle ANN,
milton amounted to approximately 8
I 5OO,000,00O rounds, of which 100000
=
The number of rounds of compile
artillery ammunition produced
American plants was in excess Of u
100000, compared with 9OO0,0t
I rounds secured from the French al
! British.
! In the first 20 months after the de
! laration of war by each country Il
{ British did better than the Unit
( States in the production of light art
( lery, and the United States excell
I them in producing heavy artillery al
I both light and heavy ammunition.
At the end of the war American pi
! duction of smokeless powder was
} per cent greater than the French a
! British production combined. T
! American production Of high exp
sives was 40 per cent greater tn
! Great Britain's and nearly double tn
( Of France.
4 Out of every hundred days tn