Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-12
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|lEG!Ql1NA.yIRIES
Foreeful Facts Concerning the Inter
ests of Former Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines

A London fOSt OF the <AlueiiIdii
Legion has been organized.
The total number of men serving the
World War was 4,0ao,735.
| According to recent statistics, 1s2o
service men married British girls.
The American army took part in L
major engagements in Europe.
There are more than &G15 American
Legion posts throughout the United
StAtes.
More than 5000 special trains were re-
quired to move soldiers in the United
States.
There will be no training this year fer
the Officers Reserve Corps and regular
army reserve.
The official number of German sub
marines on active service throughout
the war was 333.
North Dakota gave cash bonus Of SIS
for each months service to war vet
Grams OF that state.
The American rifle strength" on the
western front at the signing of the ar
mistice was $1,000.
At the signing of the arnstice the
Allies had three aeroplanes on the
front TO every German one.
. A farm school is to be opened in Ger
many for American soldiers desiring to
take up agricultural pursuits.
More than 1900 former soldiers. sailors
and marines have filed applications for
government land in Wyoming.
When the war came to an end there
were $4,000 horses and 5000 mules in
the American army stables abroad
In recognition of their service in the
war, u states have already granted a
cash bonus to aid former soldiers and
sailors.
Twenty-four thousand disabled sol
diers, sailors and marines are being re
tanned in wide variety of vocational
training.
7 will take q year or more for the
War and Navy Departments to make
all the awards for honorary service in
the World War.
More than 2400 candidates for mill
tary service in this country during the
. war were rejected on the ground that
they were feeble minded.
Memorial building dedicated to men
lost in the World War are taking the
place of heroic bronzes which typitied
the soldier of 1851 and 1898.
Out Of every 1000 combatant troops in
the American forces or the western
front between June and November. 1918.
TO less than 30 were killed in battle.
To cooperate with the American
Legion, an organization is formi' &
under the name OF American Officers
Of the Great War" with headquart ers
in Detroit. Mich.
For his service as president of the
Navv Consulting Board. Thomas A.
Edison was decorated with the Medal
of Honor. the oldest of the United
States military decorations.
a memora! building to be erected on
ar artificial island which will be pa ed
in the Charles River basin at IIarva I'd
iri 'ge is pre- posed as Bost1ns memoria!
to the veterans Of The World War
The American Legion post in Paris
is Planning 10 have permanent club
rooms where former service men, re-
turning TO that city on pleasure or bust
ness. rlay make themselves at home.
Hotel Petrngrad in Paris, large enough
motheSs who expect to visit military
cemeteries in France 1t is MANAGED by
the 7. VI a. as an American wom-
ems clu!'
The FIJI Regiment of Marines. OF
Re!eau Wood fame. was cited three
times by the FRENCH army during the
war, and is one Of the few American CT
carnations whose men have he rriv;
leFe of wearing the French "fourra-
gere'' rr citation cord. on the left shout
der of their uniforms
No enemy alien may come to the
United states until peace is signed, ex-
cent reputable business men admitted on
temporary permits for purely business
purposes. de7erdent German PARENTS.
more than 81 wears Of age. having net
uralized children in thie country and
American-horn wives of Germans who
have relatives here