The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-17

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Nearly two million Filipinos are Of
military age.
There were 81 800 men named Smith
in the q. s. Army.
OF the q Presidents of the United
States, 1s were exsoldiers.
Sixty thousand camels were used
by the British forces in Palestine.
The average weight OF men when
entering the service was 141,54
pounds.
Athletics are to be promoted on
q large scale in the United States
Army.
The average reflections in the selec,
tive draft for all states was $40 per
cent.
Before the war there was one Re.
public in Europe. There are now thir-
teen.
There were $4,000 regular U. s.
Army troops engaged in the war with
Germany:
vocational training program of the o.
About 200 soldiers have married
German girls since the American
forces reached the Rhine.
Five clubs are being operated by the
Salvation Army for the American
troops on the Rhine
Thirty thousand disabled British
officers are drawing an average pen
sion OF Is shillings week.
Mafor dolauctnp nlanto mead by tho
A. E F. are now doing service fight
Ing coolies in the Polish army.
There are 7,172 typewriting ma
chimes still doing army work in the
War department at Washington.
Recent reports give total of 1,1S1
Distinguished Service Medals award
ed for service In the World War.
The maximum strength OF tho U. S.
Marine Corps on active duty during
the war was 75,101 officers and men.
1t is estimated that 100000 Ameri-
can tourists will visit the battlefields
in France and Belgium this summer.
In Philadelphia, fifteen ex.service
men offered to give their blood to save
the life Of a girl at the Lankeau hos.
pital.
For the year ending June 30, care of
sick and disabled soldiers and sailors
who served in the World War will
cost $10,316,00O.
Women nurses, who served in the
nursing corps of the U. S. Army or
Navy, are eligible to membership in
the American Legion.
Casualties during October, 1918,
among the American forces was the
high-water mark for losses when IT,
sS4 men were killed.
On January 1, France had $4,000
men under arms. Of,the number 51O,-
900 were white Europeans and 2S4 900
colored colonials.
or the 1873, AIS men sent TO war by
the state OF Massachusetts, approx.
mately 10000 are members OF the
American Legion.
The French government has decided
to establish museum Of war inven-
tons which were instrumental in
winning decision for the Allies.
The greatest number 1903, 1927 that
registered for the selective draft were
81 years OF age. The smallest number.
were at the age Of 80.
Having travelled $500 consecutive
miles without rising to the surface, an
American submarine holds the record
for long distance diving.
Raymond Burleigh, IA years of age,
Of st. Joseph, Mo-, is said to be the
youngest soldier in the U. S. Army.
He enlisted July 81, 1917.
An average increase per man of
3.35 pounds in weight was % inches
in height was gained through service
in the army during the World War.
Germany's decrease in population
during the four and one-half years of
the war is estimated at 5,75o000, in
cluding 100000 men in the prime OF
life.
Corned beef and salmon, in the
amounts of 1r4,oos,S17 pounds, aud
207 .S4S,550 pounds, respectively, we're
purchased by the army during the war.
The library OF Princeton University
will have huge war collection com.
posed of more than 100000 titles.
including books, periodicals, cartoons,
posters, etc.
President Wilson recently awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross to
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose.
'S@et sA.t AOA AASAOAk 6CtNi dI SdQIlKuY
and SCISSORS, France, May %, 1918.
The first Distinguished Service Med.
al awarded in the A E. F. went to
General Pershing ;. It was presented
by General Tasker H. Bliss at General
Headquarters on November 16, 1918.
To be followed on the same scale
that characterized It's original produc.
ton in Montebaur, Germany, in 1918.
the famous First Division, q. S. A.,
viii stage a circus at Camp Taylor.
Louisville. KY, in July.
Harry 3. Walter, one Of the 1e sur.
vivors Of the original Princess Pat"
regiment for $500 men, recently oh.
tanned citizenship papers from Federal
Judge Chatfield In Brooklyn, NY.
In addition to the French Legion az
Honor which was presented to Father
Francis P. Dufty, known as the
sighting Chaplain" OF the old sixty.
ninth Regiment, has been honored
with the Croix de Guerre, the Distin.
guished Service Cross and the Distin.
guished Service Medal.
Americas Gift to France a co,os.
sal statue to be carved by Frederick
MacMonnies, who is giving his Ser.
/ vices free win he presentad IN No..