The expenditures of the quartermaster’s department for the fiscal years ending June 30ths, 1917, 1918, and 1919, were as shown below, exclusive of appropriations for public works, under the Navy Department, from which figures the enormous increase in the activities and responsibilities of this department, caused by the war and by the increase in strength, is evident: ------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Subhead. | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 ------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Provisions |$1,612,908.30|$6,725,893.05|$10,287,965.53 Clothing | 2,173,501.59|11,123,760.36| 20,275,456.01 Fuel | 248,606.82| 590,120.91| 989,573.08 Military stores | 1,520,289.39| 6,371,978.10| 13,952,476.49 Camps of instruction | 31,871.04| 30,945.83| .. Transportation and recruiting | 620,667.75| 1,514,657.77| 3,064,099.21 Repairs of barracks | 216,715.56| 3,754,241.58| 5,883,065.69 Forage | 75,018.94| 161,614.81| 163,132.90 Commutation of quarters | 164,497.24| 402,402.51| 363,484.53 Contingent | 983,984.91| 4,864,825.25| 8,674,269.61 Expenditures under appropriation | | “Reserve supplies, U. S. M. C.” .. | .. | 2,510,527.44 Purchases under second deficiency | | act from United States Army .. | .. | 772,540.00 +-------------+-------------+-------------- Total maintenance | | | quartermasters’ | | | department U. S. M. C. | 7,648,061.54|35,540,440.17| 66,936,590.49 ------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- INDEX. A. Page. Actual strength of Marine Corps, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 73, 74, 84, 85, 89 Adjutant and Inspector’s Department, 5, 83 Advanced Base Force, 10, 19, 37 Aerodromes, 72 Aero Squadrons, 9, 67 _Agamemnon_, 33 Age limits, Marine aviators, 74 Aigrefeuille, France 63 Aisne defensive, 41, 57, 58, 65 Aisne River, 49, 50, 55 Aisne-Marne offensive, 9, 38, 44, 45, 57, 58, 65, 67 _Alabama_, 18 Albany, 18, 61 Allotments, 87 Amaroc Shoot, 70 Ambrose Lightship, 60 _America_, 48 American embarkation center, Le Mans, France, 62 American Commander in Chief, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 51, 54, 79, 81, 82 American Peace Commission, Paris, France, 63 Amiens, France, 40 Annapolis, Md., 19 Antitank guns, 67 Antweiler, 56 Archangel, Russia, 20 Argonne-Meuse (Meuse-Argonne). (_See_ Meuse-Argonne.) _Arizona_, 18 _Arkansas_, 18, 59 Arlon, 56