Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-12 | Page 2 | Americans are Being Rushed to War Zone

model 19J7 rifle (modified Enfield), bayonet, belt, haversack, pack carriers, car-riers, bandoleers, bayonet scabbard and full mess equipment. Tonnage is today a limiting factor in the shipment of ordnance material overseas, especially because be-cause of the present necessity of increasing the transport of infantry regiments. Sufficient supplies of artillery, French 7i millimetre and 135 milfi-metre milfi-metre and American lieavv railway artillery, are already in France to meet tho present demand. Sufficient Suf-ficient machine guns are also immediately imme-diately available for American forces in France, AMERICANS ARE BEING RUSHED TO WAR ZONE Every U. S. Soldier Who Boards a Transport Is Fully Equipped With Arms, According to an Announcement Made j by Ordnance Bureau. ARTILLERY WAITS ON BATTLE FRONT More Than 1,300,000 Men Called in Draft So Far; Army May Number 5,000,000 in a Little Over a Year. WASHINGTON, May 11. Although American troops arc going overseas in Jjjige numbers the ordance department has been able to keep up with the new. programme, and every soldier who bohnls a transport is fully equipped with Minis. I ho ordnance bureau announced an-nounced today. Artillery and machine guns already tfrfe in France in sufficient quantities, :it was said, to meet immediate needs. The statement said : The army ordnance department has thus far met every demand imposed im-posed by the new programme for overseas shipment of American j ; troops. . Despite the great acceleration in the sending of American forces to, France, no infantryman goes aboard ship without a United States