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Show U. S. ARMY HAS OVER ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN UNDER ARMS There were 1,428,050 enlisted men and 110,S05 officers in the United States army at the opening of 1018. more than one find a half times as large as nny force ever before mobilized mo-bilized by this nntlon. according to a statement by Secretary of War Baker, - During the wnr with Snnln the nrmy of the United States nt Its maximum strength ncsrpgated 272,00(1 men and officers. The army In the field and in trnlnlng now Is practically six times as great as the rmxiinum number under un-der arms ! i v Hpnnlsh-Amerienn war. About .,. ,.v officers were commissioned commis-sioned from rlrti life In the two series of trnl',its carnjjB, nearly eipht tlmps as ninny as the number of officers In the regulnr army April 1, 1917. |