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Show AMERICANS BEING RUSHED TO FRANCE EVERY SOLDIER WHO BOARDS A TRANSPORT IS FULLY EQUIPPED WITH ARMS. More Than 1,300,000 Men Called in Draft So Far, While Army May Number 5,000,000 in Little Over a Year. Washington. Although American troops' are going overseas in hirge numbers the ordnance department has been able to keep up with the new program, pro-gram, and every soldier who boards a transport is fully equipped with arms, the ordnance bureau announced Sunday. Sun-day. Artillery and machine guns already are in France in sufficient quantities, it was said, to meet immediate needs. More than 1,300,000 men have been called in the draft so far, and either are in France, in camp or nuder call to go into service before June 1. The total of 1,300,000 includes all men summoned in the May contingent. There is every indication that even a larger increment will be summoned in June than was summoned in May and a progressive monthly mobilization continued con-tinued through the summer and fall months as the cantonments are expanded. ex-panded. It is expected that at such rate the army will reach a full strength of well over three million within the next twelve or thirteen months. It is possible, some officers say, that the number will be closer to five million than three million. |