The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-27

1,055 locomotives and 14,302 car. sent from the United States, and, fol the French, they mended l,423 loco motives and .45,992 cars. They lait 1,475 miles of railway, and stretched through the air 125,000 miles of tele graph and telephone wire. They handled 129,143,1SS objects of cloth ing, they provided bakeries which averaged an output of almost two million pounds of bread a day. When the armistice was signed the trans portation service was operating in thirty ports. On the wharves which under American supervision, seemed to have sprung up in a night, over five million tons of material had been unloaded.
 The record was broken by 135 men of tlie first company of Railway En gineers to arrive in France They laid 2.69 miles of narrow gauge rail. way in about 2 hours. This meant handling, 105 tons of steel rails, 1, S30 pairs of plates, 7,100 tiesssS kegs of bolts, 37 kegs of spikes, total of 230 tons, in 433 minutes.
 The German imperial Government had believed it impossible that Am. erica could raise an army, equip it and transport it across an ocean be. set with submarines which, during the very month when the United States declared war, had sunk SIP, 300 tons of allied and neutral vessels Between June 1917 and November 1918, over two million soldiers crossed the Atlantic. Owing to the convoy. ing of ships, proposed by President Wilson. who, from the first had pro claimed that America was ready to give her last cent and her last drop of blood, not one life was lost through aggression by the enemy. America had accomplished the mos! gigantic. industrial triumph in his tory: she had dnmbfounded :he Ger, mans who, throughout the world were celebrated for their system of organization.
 All this effort was made so quietly tnat no ono really knew what the Yankees were about, and yet. now that the war is won, the vast accu- mutation of war material has lost its significance, what endures is the spirit in which the Americans worked. Their ingenuity in saving time, and in overcoming all obstacles. will remain as an example of what can be accomplished when the men of free democr2.y labor together in fraternal unity for a common cause.
 E French Assistance t
 No less quiet and effective was tie manner in which the French Govern ment furthered the efforts of tho Am. CT cans in procuring supplies. Brig adler General Charles c. Dawes. Gnheral Purchasing Agent. ;i1 his ra- tor.. has given the following account of French collaboration:
 "The demands of the A. E. F. for material in France were tremendous and insistent Approximately one half of the entire material and sup plies used from the beginning to the date of the armistice, to wit about seven million tons, were secured in France. - N
 "The thanks of our nation are due to the members of the French Gov ernment. Not only did they assist in every way in protecting the entire purchasing processes of the A. E. F. from exorbitant prices, but they were invaluable in their efforts to ex pedite the furnishing of supplies from the French Government, and to un cover new sources of supply in the open market.
 Whether in the early days we were seeking metal and timber for primary construction, or whether in the later days, in the Saint-Aiihiel and the Ar gonne. Mouse battles we were crying out for horses to take our artillery into action, or for camions to trans port our troops, these men of tho Haut Commissariat, with an energy and devotion which knew no limit found in some way, the means tt assist us and to enable us to sur mount acute crisis"
 The proof of this cooperation lie' l in the fact that when the armistic' was signed all of the 75 m. guns, al of the 155 m.A howitzers together with 65,000, GOO shells which had beer fired from them, 57 per cent of th' long range guns and S1 per cent Q
 the airpianes in use by the A. E. F had been supplied by the French. I had been estimated htat the Amcrl can army would need 15,ooO.Ooo ton