The Carlisle independent., 1918-04-11

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 Development of Navy.
 The development of the navy during the first year of war has given the greatest satisfaction. It's growth and achievements during this period may be epitomized in the following para graphs:
 Strength of the navy today is nearly 21000 officers and 330.000 en- listed men; strength year ago was 4,792 officers and 77,946 enlisted men.
 Estimated total expenditures of the navy during first year of war: Dis bursements and outstanding obliga- lions, 1881 100000.
 Total naval appropriations. real and pending, S3,333, III ,6G5.04.
 American destroyers arrived at a British port to assist in patrolling Flu ropean waters 2S days after the decla- ration of war.
 There are now four times as many vessels in the naval service as a year ago.
 Nearly 73.o00 mechanics and other civilian employees are working at navy yards and stations.
 When war was declared, 123 naval vessels were building or authorized, and contracts have been placed since that time for 949 vessels. AFora +bor, -A0 ,,rf,-a+ol,- 1.,,-,,,5 ,-o. sels have been purchased or chartered by the navy.
 Six new authorized battleships are designed to be of 41.500 tons. the Iarg- est battleShips in the world.
 Our 35,000-ton cruisers, 8 knots. will he the fastest in the world. their speed equaling the fastest destroyers.
 Prompt repairs of 109 informed Ger man ships partially wrecked by their crews, added more than 100000 tons to our available naval and merchant tonnage.
 The navy has developed an Amer- can mine believed to combine all the good points of various types of mines, and is manufacturing them in quanti- ties
 During the year the latest type of naval 16-inch gun was completed for our new battleships; if throws a pro- jectile weighing 2.100 pounds.
 Navy has in it's possession now stock of supplies sufficient for the average requirements for at least one year.
 Several hundred submarine chasers, l built since the war, have been deliv- cred to the navy by 31 private con cerns and six navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the Atlantic, l some in severe weather. Naval training camps have a ca pacity of 102O0O in summer, 94.00O men in winter
 Shipping Boards Progress. ID to date congress has authorized S2,O34OO0.0 900, of which S1,135. .000.OO0 has been appropriated, for the United States Shipping board and i Emergency Fleet corporation; on March l, S353, 3,247,955.37 of this sum had been expended.
 The Emergency Fleet corporation i had requisitioned March l. 425 steel vessels and contracted for 720 steel vessels making a total of 1,145 steel ships. of an aggregate dead-weight tonnage of s164,5o8 tons; it had let contracts for 400 wooden vessels. az gregating approximately 1715,0OO dead-weight tons. if had repaired and put in operation 7ss,000 dead weight tonnage seized from Germany and Austria.
 On March 5 the building program of the Emergency Fleet corporation was being carried on in 151 plants.
 First Years War Cost.
 Total estimated expense of the United States government in the first year of war. without loans to the allies. is s12,o67 278,679.0T.
 To help meet this expense the treas ury department foated $6.61c, ,532, 300 subscriptions to Liberty bonds.
 Bonds. certificates of indebtedness, War Savings certificates, and Thrift stamps issued by the treasury up to March ,12, totaled sS,560, ,sO2, ,052. .96.
 The United States government had l loaned to foreign governments asso- ciated in the war on March 12, 1918, s4,436, ,329, ,750.
 1 To March 12 the war risk insur- ance bureau had issued policies for a total of SIP, 465, ,116, 500 to the armed l forces