| OCR Text |
Show OUR MAN POWER IN THE WAR In a pamphlet put out by Col. Leonard P. Ayres and authorized by the war department de-partment some statistics are given relative rela-tive to our war with Germany, some of which are new and all of them are interesting. inter-esting. America put forth twice the man power pow-er in the great war that the north put forth in. the war of the rebellion. It is almost true that among each one hundred Americans five took up arms in defense of the country. During the civil war ten out of every hundred inhabitants of the northern states served as soldiers or sailors. sail-ors. In that struggle 2,400,000men serv-dd serv-dd in the northern armies or in the navy. It is pointed out that the great growth of the United States in the meantime is indicated by the fact that in spite of a proportionate contribution in man power of nearly two to one in favor of civil war days a total of 4,800,000 men had gathered gather-ed into the armed forces of the "United States up to November 11, 1918, when the armistice went into effect. An American effort proportional to that put forth by the north during the civil war would have produced nearly 10,000,000 fighting men. Two out of every three American soldiers sol-diers who reached France took part in battle. The number that reached-France was 2,084,000 and of these 1,300,000 saw active service at the front. Of the forty-two forty-two divisions that reached France, twenty-nine took part in combat service. Seven Sev-en of them were regular army divisions, eleven were organized from the national guard anrf eleven were made up of national na-tional army troops. American divisions were in battle for 200 days and engaged in thirteen major operations. From the middle of August until the end of the war-the war-the American divisions held during the greater part of the time a front longer than that held by the British. In October the American divisions held 101 miles of line or 23 per cent of the entire western front. In the battle of St. Mihiel 550,000 Americans were engaged, as compared with about 100,000 on the northern side in the battle of Gettysburg. The artillery fired more than 1,000,000 shells in four hours, which is the .most intense concentration concen-tration of artillery fire recorded in history. his-tory. The Meuse Argonne battle lasted fortyseven days, during which 1,200,000 American troops were engaged. The number ofsoldiers furnished by each state of the union is also given. New York heads the list with 367,864 men and the Philippines stands at the foot of the list with 255 men. Of the states proper Nevada furnished the smallest number or 5105 men. The Utah contingent is set down at 17,301, though our state council of defense fixes the number at 23,000, population. Salt Lake Herald. mi a la |
