The War Department figures of the size of our army in France throughout 1918--which at the time could not be made public, because of military necessities--tell the story of its rapid growth. They show the number of Divisions in France and in line and in reserve to have been as follows: _1918 In France In Line and Reserve_ April 1 10 3 May 13 4 June 16 6 July 24 9 August 32 20 September 37 25 October 40 31 November 42 30 This tabulation takes no count whatsoever of the noncombatants of the S. O. S.--as the army man knows the Service of Supplies--or the other great numbers of men employed in the rearward service of the United States Army. It is perhaps enough to say that the largest number of our troops employed in France was on September 26, the day that General Pershing began his Meuse-Argonne offensive. On that day our army consisted of 1,224,720 combatants and 493,764 noncombatants, a total of 1,718,484 men in its actual forces. It is known now that if the war had continued we should probably have doubled those figures within a comparatively few months and should have had eighty Divisions in France by April, 1919, which would have made the United States Army by all odds the most considerable of any of the single belligerent nations fighting in France. We have told elsewhere a little of the romance of the transport of our men; here in cold figures--statistics which scorn romance in their composition--is their result. We shall see through our Red Cross spectacles again and again the performances of that army, as the men and the women of the American Red Cross saw them. In the meantime let us turn again, therefore, to Lieutenant Colonel Repington, whose reputation in this regard is well established, and find him saying of the commanding general of our army: