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Show VOLUNTEERS NUMBER NEARLY ONE MILLION Chairman Dent of House Committee Submits Figures 011 Our Military Mili-tary Strength. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Tn the belief be-lief that the country does not understand under-stand the real strengt h of the American Ameri-can military and naval forces, Chairman Chair-man lent of the house military committee com-mittee today submitted to the house for publication ' in the Congressional Record Rec-ord a statement prepared nt his request by the committee on public information frdm government records: ''On September ti, 1917, f' says the statement, "there were in the regular armv, national guard and reserve corps of the army 7S.S2S officers and 741,Ho3 enlisted men. In the r.a vy there were 141, SG7 enlisted men, 4 J ,473 naval reserves re-serves and 14. ,500 of the naval militia in the federal service. There wore 5000 men in the coast guard and 65U0 in the hospital corps, making- a total' of 200,-340. 200,-340. En listed strength of the marine corps was 29.97.1 ; reserves in the services, ser-vices, 1070: national naval volunteers, 704; retired men on active duty, fourteen. four-teen. There were apnximatel y 12,000 officers in the navy and 11(56' in the marine corps. "In other words, on that date, the army had, including officers and enlisted en-listed men, S 1 , 8 S I , and the navy 251,-205, 251,-205, making a total armed strength on that date of 1,074,140 men, all of whom are volunteers. Prior to that time there was not a. drafted soldier in a single sin-gle training camp. 'The draft law was approved lay 1. 1917." |