Show FIGURES OF AMERICAS AMERICAN PART IN WAR PASS ALL FORMER RECORDS col leonard P ayers prepares a remarkable cemarka tile statistical summary showing comparative costs in men money and material for all the cc countries atries Eri engaged cost to the united I 1 Is washington the wr cost cast th the united st c a directly about or cir nearly enough to pay the entire cost ot of running miming the american IT government overn mert from 1791 up to tile the out break of the european war for egory hundred A american jr soldier and pall or ors who ho served r 4 1 in the war or with ger many an two were killed or ol died of dis ease a during the period ot of hostilities tile number of in men serving lit in the armed forces of the nation during the war mar was of whom served to in the th troy anay these facts are am set forth in a sta go anthal surn summary merv at 0 th the war with Germa gant nv compiled under the direction of col leonard P ayers ayera chief of the statistics brunch breach of the general stair sniff of the army this summary just vt published by C colonel alone I 1 I 1 avers by direction of the sec mr of war 1 Is a complete review of americas participation in the war A against wor germany condensed con denied into to leis than IN pages it Is a detailed rom am mary ot at american military operations and yet at the 1 I long statistical tables usually found in official reports are entirely jerkin lacking col leonard P avers Is the only of rest aicer from rillian chilian life who has ra alwn ben to ill the P portion of if chief of if a dhillon ot of the general stair before the war he was nas a director of the russell sage fail foundation dation re he was chief statistical officer e at of the pence peace committee after jus hia return here he received the dis i aenlle medal some tours of the th figurea some emba of 1 1 the h a I summaries in bi use the report show be the war or soft 1 th the united states state 3 con can Ider ably more than 1000 an am hour for a over Is two yen years america a expenditures in the war mar le were sufficient tob to have carried d on the hum caari revolutionary at Y tv war r continuously on job 0 asly tor for gt ajo more than n thousand war vears at the ze rate of expenditure which rich that war actually involved during dhur tile the first three months ax pentium ms were merse at the rate of 12 2000 a do dav during the next war vear they averaged r A ged more ere the than 22 a do dav v for the hall final ten tell mouths months the dal dally Y W go was ta over ever the total war costs of a all 1 Dittl nation etal w az were s bout about oon of if which the allies and the united states fisi spent to two I 1 thirds third and ad the enemy as one a third th the three nations spending the jim greatest amounts were germany great B britain rt tain led and france 1 in that or de der A after ate them come tile the united states and ad austria Illin hungary stry with sub ly equal expend I 1 tures th the united jolted states spent about me one eighth of if the th entire cost cast wt it the wor war and it mon less tit than milli one fifth fth of tile the expend PIA isureal it n res of the allied side the total battle deaths of nil all ua no thin in tit tins we war tv were am grenter let than ihan all distills lent 1 in nil 11 tire the data 1 in uie oil burvel Tur previous vel bond denra coie ato Ilus slon 1 batlle were re IM 34 11 almea ns inertly hr rivy as those at 1 the united iud states ate A th those as of it Gern roy 32 time almea as g great test france 28 48 times and tile the british IS times as jorge afat infantry suffered most 1 in tire the american aim A im army the casualty rate in the tria infantry aly ana highs thin than A am other set and that for our irce and mint tors ceri cm higher lingher turn than to lor men I 1 for even man an killed I 1 ID battle seven arte were em rive rite out cut of at story six men sent to hospitals on of at wounds ad were ra cured bud and returned Is luty ity pneumonia killed ne soldiers soldier tit thin A were ere killed ID a battle meningitis ans an the next net most at serious disease the british sent seat inc more men so to in france in their first feet veer vear of war mar than we did in our first year vear but 1 it 1 t took td ausland three were vears to to reach it ft a strength of 01 S men in france and the united states it in one half balf of 0 that time in 1 the he physical physic 1 1 I all thu the states of the middle west made do the he best shooting otting sh C guv boys did better than city I 1 bivs white hite better than col 1 ored and nathe be better re than foreign born most of the troops who ho balled for france monce left new NT york halt half of them landed in angland and tile the other half 1 in france of etera americans america ali who went 71 ver over 49 went in british hips 45 to in am american c rican ships three in he italian helium two tire in french and one me in TO russian all ship ping under Eng english lillo control Ame american turin cargo ships averaged an one complete trip every 70 D days day and ad troop ft up ships one complete trip ey ciery 35 days the cargo fler fleet was 0 B dome almost entirely hedy A blitte om it the blie 1 se of if 2 bibo pro deadweight toni I 1 and carried to r ap beat about 7 toof tons lo 10 corgo ri 0 work of engineers Engin eera american Amerl can engineer engi ough teen built in fir france 83 new ship beitha 1000 all miles W of standard gouge track and ad miles of narrow BO gauge tr track ck the h signal goal aar corps do strung in prance france to atles its of telephone and tel tele graph wire prior to the armistice truck were shipped to tile far forces in france construction projects in the united sat suites cost mi twice s as much as the pann an las ma A canal 1 end and construction street an Tuot overseas me was on 11 nearly early I 1 aulce ile as large a scale all the entire number of american me ma chine china 9 guns B produced to tile end of at IBIS 1918 no was the bell at amerl machine dri go guns anh ill elcied to be more effective thoo the corresponding pending opens used in am other her at arav 1 11 il production P d l of tell rifle women amounted P atlon 1 that amounted to approximately 3 50 TOO 0 rounds munds of n which aich I 1 aw rounds were id shipped P overseas ahe it IT number her of to rounds u I 1 of complete t rut artillery ammunition produced in amerl american A plants we wai in teme excess of 20 pr vi 11 ith h 8 0 dud round lounds secured fr from the F call end and british in the first 20 months after the dm of if war mar by each cacti country the did better bette than tire the united states 1 in the production of I 1 arth lery irry and the united bt states is excellia excel lid them in producing bearb artillery suit and both light and ad heavy amor ammunition at the end d of 1 ih the wr war A american tim pro deat ach o et of a smokeless as powder was as 49 4 P per cent IT greater than orm the flo F lo rod british bill pi production eom told the american n production a 0 1 high agh a as 40 per a cent renter greater the than amily great real britain s and nearly double that of re france m out of at e ley ery hundred adms da a that american america combat divisions division wom were 1 in line in fr france they were cre supported ill bv their own omm AT artillery till 7 f me ta 5 days day b british artillery for far five file daya day find ad by french for on one and A half days day dmd ge in 1 round I I numbers carb ric america had in france a 3 places of if artillery of which nearly GOO n were es in mode ad 1 in arre amer tell ica bud and annert americans ug aed ad on the biving line 2259 pieces piece of vach over BU nere a boulde 1 in anter america airplane production product tt ill hen the united states state entered tn th war our the allies made the designs design w their planes available itil to american mar and before the end of hostilities fu fur libed from their own me 3 or service I 1 r A planes pieces A aviation 7 aution I 1 trai mining schools in ID the C united nl ted star staica graduated me men fro from elementary courses and ad 4 from Rc advanced cour more mole the than pilots and it ob be A were mw son bent ar overseas them a there were nere produced in the united rolled states to iii november blocher 30 1918 mra th than A 8 fill training plane plan A ana bit more mor 1 than he training engines the american america air 11 force at 1 the front eren fro from liters squadrons Im mirce in a april to 45 1 in november N I 1 lern ber 1918 on november 11 1 th the A 45 squadrons led had a an equipment of panics 01 2 plane peanea sent belt to the zone tone ot of the be adi ance for american arla aviators tors or ne nearly early were aliss of american Amr courtiss cour rican liss production america air squad an 1 rona I brought broughal don me n 1 in corb combat at enemy planes while their oia I koscs ow of pl peanea tulea num brad rely only 37 am Ameil ic can a were in battle battla for far lars days and engaged in 13 notice major operations s from frince the middle of august until the end bud of if the war the american hold during the greater amster part of the time n treat front longer than that eliat hold held by the british in or october cost the anceal american T dif divisions llon held mills miles of hn line or 23 per par cent I 1 of the its but entire western front in the battle of st ame americans bons eons were mem engaged compared with about OB A it the is northern northera side ilde I 1 in the battle of gett to th the artillery fired more am than shells bell 1 in four fear he hours which videt 1 Is the mom intense concentration of artillery sea brit recorded 1 in bil history taly the mouse argonne battle listed lasted tor far 47 days during which 1200 am amen ITT can troops were engaged |