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Show fill, (IDIfJJl-GIIINES, (IDIfJJl-GIIINES, 11 i 11 11 ! How will the war be won? With airplanes, says one man. With big guns, says another. With ships, says a third. With Borne startling new In-i In-i vention, says a fourth. SjCd all the time everybody knows that if the war is won It will be won i by soldiers everyday heros of the r ranks and plenty of them. Of such the United States possesses now 1,360,000. These are the fighters in this total the auxiliary forces are unrepresented. Most of them are still In the training camps. Not all of them as yet are disciplined dis-ciplined troops, fully equipped and armed for battlo. . IBut . there they are, 1,360,000 of them, called to the colors and enroll-. enroll-. ed. (Already they are one of the biggest big-gest factors Hindenburg is reckoning . -ith for the campaign of 1918. " 'When Great Britain entered the war i it was with a much smaller army. The first expeditionary force number-- number-- ed barely a hundred thousand. The , kaiser called it a contemptible little army. Yet without Its gallant work f at Mons, Parisi might have been taken i by the Germans. One hundred thousand thous-and men, and the encouragement they i brought to the hard-pressed French, were enough to avert defeat in the first year of the war. St is the hope of the allies that an-! an-! other new force, ten or twelve times I ' as great, may be enough in the fourth 'f year of the war to assure victory. . Only Two Regular Armies s Of the new American force over 300,000 men are regulars. In all the world only two regular armies remain re-main the American and the Japanese. The other have all been swept away in the flood of war. When the first American onslaught takes place, German Ger-man landwehr and landsturm troops will find themselves opposed to an army of professional soldiers. Behind the regulars are the 400,000 ajoUliers of the national guard. Regu-r Regu-r rafis In exper!ence, many of them,' thanks to our neighbors to the south. After the guard came the 600,000 men j of the new national army. ! This is the force that has grown in . eight months out of the army that on i " April 1 numbered only 110,000 men. There will soon be as many commissioned commis-sioned officers in the new army as there wt?re privates at the beglning of th)A war. After the first training j filps the number of officers was 80,- 000. It had been 20,000 at the start of ' the war. The second training camps I may raise the total to 100,000, and H a third series of camps will begin in January. Altogether, officers and men. the ( land forces of America number not far from a million and a half combatants. ; The huge size of the armies operat ing in Kurope has somewhat dulled t our minds to the meaning of a million nnjl a half of men. It is as if the entire" en-tire" population of South Carolina, or i of Nebraska, men, women and cliild-i cliild-i ren, were suddenly to be converted I into young men clad in olive drab and I organized into companys and battal- ions, - ! Forces Are Large Crowd this force into passenger I coaches, nearly 100 to the coach, and 15,000 coaches would be necessary to i transport them. Fifteen hundred ten-car ten-car trains would be called into service, i As many more trains would be re- quired to convey their equipment and j supplies for a short perold. i Yo marshal men in divisions Is a , ' late step in the process of preparing them for the front. Army plans call for seventeen divisions of guardsmen, ' , and another seventeen of the selected men. The regulars bring, the total lumbers of divisons to upwards of ; forty. 'A division in the civil war was a comparatively small affair very rarely rare-ly did it exceed 10,000 men. A division divis-ion in the new army is comparable to an army corps in the old. It numbers, num-bers, at full strength, 27,152 men. In camp it makes a good-sized city full of men a city nearly as large as Og-den. Og-den. Utah, or Zanesville or oughkeep-Fie. oughkeep-Fie. or Shreveport ; Or if all the new army should be brought together in a single camp it would form, with the auxiliary forces that would be Immediately necessary to its support, a city nearly as large, helmets and trench mortars to be Been to. Each of the four infantry regiments regi-ments in a division must have 480 trench knives, 192 automatic rifles, and three one-pounder cannon. The "68 men of the machine gun battalion and the 5068 men of the field artillery brigade must have machine guns and three-inch guns In numbers that would stagger an artillerist even of so recent a period as the war with Spuln. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand thou-sand troops were made ready to fight Spain in 1898 though only 60,000 of them were actually engaged. There were 2,700,000 enlistments In the federal army in the civil war. Many of this number were re-enlistments. The highest total engaged at any one time was reached in the last' year of the war. On March 31, 1865, 980,000 men were fighting for the union. .The confederate army reached reach-ed the height of its strength in 1863. Something less than 700,000 men were under arms in the south at that time. Both armies in the civil war fought their battles unulded. The new army will fight alongside of a French army of 3.0U,000, and British overm'as forces amounting to another 3,000,(wt0. Mfre Is a united and firmly co-ordinated grand army of 7.360.0O0. Will the victories won by that great force I In lie derisive? I If they are not, America lias the 'men and machinery to make a still greater clfurt. and doubtless quite as lively, as Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. i To move these divisions, one after another, across the Atlantic, many new ships are being built. To move them up to the front from their port of debarkation, hundreds of miles of heavy railway track must be laid. jgAnd to enable the division to move on Us own feet after the railway has it down, a huge transportation equipment equip-ment is provided. The most mobile . part of an infantry division is In the infantry Itself. Yet the 16,420 men of the four infantry regiments require H for their own purposes 1326 draft mules, 168 bicycles, and sixty-four f rolling kitchens. There must also be - 236 riding horses, four motor cars and eight motorcycles with side cars. The I 6,000 field artillerists need a much 5 greater equipment of animals and j vehicles. And there is an ammunl-Zi ammunl-Zi tion train of 962 with its scores of Vtrucks, and a sanitary train of 949, with Its dozens of ambulances. Men Well Provisioned The first thing to be done for the new army was to provide the men with shelter and clothing, food and warmth. That large undertaking is all "?,t accomplished. Equally great is the ta-k of providing arms. To arm an infantry division In the civil war meant to provide as many muskets and as many bayonets a there wre uk n in the command. In the present war the job Is more complicated, 'i.re are riries f.nd bayonets to be f,irnihhed now as formerly. Hut there are also grenades and gas masks and |