The General Staff of the American expeditionary forces in France, as the result of several changes in personnel, consisted on May 14, 1918, of the following:
| Commander: | General John J. Pershing |
| Aid de Camp: | Colonel James L. Collins |
| Aid de Camp: | Colonel Carl Boyd |
| Aid de Camp: | Colonel M. C. Shallenberger |
| Chief of Staff: | Major Gen. J. W. McAndrew |
| Adjutant: | Lieut. Col. Robert C. Davis |
| Inspector: | Brig. Gen. Andre W. Brewster |
| Judge Advocate: | Brig. Gen. Walter A. Bethel |
| Quartermaster: | Brig. Gen. Harry L. Rogers |
| Surgeon: | Colonel Merritte W. Ireland |
| Engineer: | Brig. Gen. Harry Taylor |
| Ordnance Officer: | Brig. Gen. C. B. Wheeler |
| Signal Officer: Brig. | Gen. Edgar Russell |
| Aviation Officer: | Brig. Gen. B. D. Foulois |
President Wilson on May 4 pardoned two soldiers of the American expeditionary force who had been condemned to death by a military court-martial in France for sleeping on sentry duty and commuted to nominal prison terms the death sentences imposed on two others for disobeying orders.
HEALTH OF THE SOLDIERS
Major Hugh H. Young, director of the work of dealing with communicable blood diseases in our army in France, made this striking statement on May 12 regarding the freedom of the American expeditionary force from such diseases:
In making plans for this department of medical work in France it had been calculated by the medical authorities in Washington to have ten 1,000-bed hospitals, in which a million men could receive treatment, but with 500,000 Americans in France there is not one of the five allotted Americans in any of the hospitals now running, and only 500 cases of this type of disease needing hospital treatment, instead of the expected 5,000.
In other words, instead of having 1 per cent. of our soldiers in hospitals from social diseases, as had been expected, the actual number is only one-tenth of 1 per cent. There is no reason to doubt that this record will be maintained. The hospitals prepared for this special treatment are to be used for other cases.
This means that the American Army is the cleanest in the world. The results, according to Major Young, have been achieved by preventive steps taken by the American medical directors, coupled with the co-operation of the men.