Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1918 — Here Is What Baker Has Promised For 1918 [ARTICLE]

Here Is What Baker Has Promised For 1918

The United States government will have 2,000,000 soldiers in France in 1918. It will have 500,000 of them early in the year and another million and a half will be ready. , o—o Thirty-two divisional of the National Guard and National Army troops in camp in the United States —more than a million are considered ready to go over seas whenever it is decided they shall move. o——o Six million shells for the use of the American soldiers in France right now are in the process of manufacture? Every American soldier who can use a rifle has already been provided with one, and the rate of manufacture assures a steady supply as troops need them. o- —o Railroad systems, some six hundred miles long, ports, terminals, supply warehouses and other facilities on an enormous plan have already been built for the American army now in France. o—o >. Speedy investigation of complaints with reference to neglect of soldiers on the sick list has been and is the rule of the department.