Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-28 | Page 7 | Army Strength Nearly 300,000

19,734 furloughed to the reserve. The figures given out show that all of the troops in service at the present tlm" with the exception of 0,949. are Htiitiond fn the United States. Distribution of forces, aB stated bv the bulletin. Is- Europe. Eu-rope. 34,997. Of this number 23,114 are In France, fifty-seven In Great Britain 11,048 in Germany, thirteen in north Russia and 765 with various missions throughout Furope. At sea, en route to the United States, are 6671!; at sea en route to Furope, 11; in the United States p4M9S, and In United States possesions,' Total enlistments for the regular armv between February 2 and October numbered 127,338. Of the toul enlisted to that date the following numbers have enlisted for special service abroad- Furope, Fu-rope, 1 5.6-10 : Siberia, Ut27; Philippine 3377; Panama, 524; Alaska, 274; Hawaii' 176. ' ARMY STRENGTH enyfioioio War Department Bulletins Show Distribution of U. S. Troops. The estimated strength of the American Ameri-can army October 1 I is listed at 290.447 officers and men by bulletins of the war department news hureau. Issued at the Salt Lake army recruiting office yesterday. yester-day. This number does not include nurses ! and army field clerks. The bulletin stales that from November Novem-ber 11, 1918, to October 16. 1919. a total of 3,403,796 troops have been discharged, making a net reduction In army strengtn since: November 11 of 92 per cent. Of these, 172.612 were officers and 3.231,s4 were enlisted men. the latter including