Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — YANKEE ARMY SECOND [ARTICLE]

YANKEE ARMY SECOND

Only Exceeded on Western Front by French, We Had 1,950,000, France 2,559,000 and Great Britain 1,715,000 • Men. Washington. —America hnd the see* ond largest allied urmy on the western front when the armistice was signed, according 'to announcement made l>y Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of stuff. Frunce stood first with 2,650,000 men, the United Stutes seond with 1,050,000 men, and England third with 1,715,000 men, including Portuguese. This is au official statement of the situation, and is quite different from predictions made a year ago by German military critics that In any event the United States would not be able to place more than 600,000 men In Europe. “We now have fairly complete reports of the strength of the allied forces on the western front at the time of the armistice,” said General March, “and we find from these reports that the United States force had passed the force of Great Britain in strength, and was the second force in strength on November 11. These figures, have given to you are the ‘ration strength,’ meaning they Include every man who had to be fed —combatant, noncombatant, medical men, services of supply men, etc.”