Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-27
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Forceful Facts Concerning the In
terests of Former Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines.

Inc new regular army ulNislbt
of the United States will be made
up of about $4,000 men.
Germany had number of vege.
tartan regiments in active service
during the world war
1t is reported that Fort Riley, In
Kansas, Is to be made the largest
cavalry station In the United States
State and national dues to new
members of the American Legion
in Pennsylvania amount to SIZE
q year
1t has been announced that the
sum of 100000 monthly will be
required 10 run the league OF ma
tons next year.
Private c. r. Wurst has beer
declared to be the smartest sea.
soldier at the marine training camp
at Quantico, Va. ssh
Only 1891 alleged draft evad'
ers of the United States army re.
main unaccounted for in the rec
ords of the war department files
More than $4,000 women
throughout the United States are
enrolled under the banner of the
women's auxiliary of the American
Legion. ..a 'r
Armies of France. England and
the United States are engaged in
important experiments toward de-
Veloping and improving war tanks
Four Italian admirals and ten
other naval officers of that coun-
try were recently decorated with
the United States Naval Cross in
Rome.
After July 1, 1921. the minimum
strength at which national guard
infantry companies may be main
tanned it's sixty-five active enlisted
men. NH
As a plan to honor ex-students
of the University of Wisconsin,
who lost their lives in the world
war. campaign is under way to
raise $1,000, 600 for a war memo
rial.
According to estimates compiled
by the treasury department the
latest official figures show 7,503
persons lost between 1900 and
$4,000 Liberty bonds. valued al
hundreds of thousands of dollars
All uu4 iliS bttl iuOPNNN
by the Canadians living in Paris
for the yearly decoration OF their
soldiers graves Every grave VIII
be decorated with the Canadian
flag and Canadian flowers,
The Forty-second regiment, rail
road artillery, of the coast artillery
corps, is the only completed rail-
way artillery unit maintained by
the United States army Forty
three cars are included in the
travelling coast defense outfit.
The allied reparations commis-
sion has presented to the German
government demand for the i'm
mediate delivery of 10000 bulls
and 500, 900 cows to France, IL, 15C
head of cattle to Italy, 100000
cows to Belgium and $4,000 head
of cattle to Serbia.
Because a number of soldiers
listed in bronze as dead. have
turned up safely at home, the wal
memorial tablet in front OF The
court house ut Reading, Pa, must
be revised. Names of more than
twenty men now known as dead
do not appear on the tablet.
During the world war the pub
lie sent total of 10000 invea-
tons or ideas for inventions to the
United States navy. OF that mum
Der which had to be examined and
passed upon, only about one sug-
gestion in thousand was found
to possess any practical value.
General Pershing has been APP
pointed a member of the commit
tee arranging for the celebration
of the Tooth anniversary of the
death of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mar
shall Foch Is honorary president
Marshal Haig, of Great Britain
and General Diaz, of Italy, viii
also be members Of the body.
Fifty-four men OF the A. Il. F.
who returned from France with
the congressional medal of honor
| were occupied in civil life as but
Ter, steward. college professor
country church deacon, landscape
gardener, office clerk, real estate
salesman, lawyer, musical comedy
actor and sigarmaker.
The army transport Pocahontas
which recently arrived in New
| York from Antwerp and st. Ma
zaire, carried the bodies of 2,lS5
American soldiers killed in France
Among the passengers were fifty
three war brides" from Belgium
Czecho -Slovakia, England, Franco
and Germany, eleven prisoners
from the army of occupation in
Germany, and four stowaways.
War cemeteries in France ir
which her soldiers are buried are
Flo be national property, and the
body of each soldier or sailor which
has been identified is to have a
separate grave. with a uniform
monument inscribed with the
name, etc, and the words Pour la
France as well as any religious
device or other ornamentation
which the family may desire.
The first shell hurled by the
American army at the Germans
October 20, 1917, was fired from a
French 75-millimetre gun of bat
terry C, sixth field artillery, First
division. Corporal Louis ]. Vara-
day, of East st. Louis, ILL.,, fired the
shot, pulling the lanyard. The his
toric cannon with a record of hav-
ing fired 10000 rounds in all, is
now at the U. S. Military academy,
West Point
In a report on the number of pa
tients treated in hospitals of the A.
E. F., records show that there were
$3.50 gas (all kinds) cases; gun
shot missile, S5,1S2; shrapnel, 49,
44S; rifle ball, 1856; shell, 21,312;
hand grenade, 1,156; indirect re-
suit of military agents, 1888; ex-
plosives, GAG; pistol ball, 257; bay
onet, 245; falling objects, 1913;
aerial bombs, 150; cutting and
piercing instruments, LAG; airplane,
So; saber, IA; other causes, 1901.
Hungary will have the largest
family of heroes in the world by
the government measures just in