Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

| ed States army has Increased in actual
/ strength from 1924 officers and 2O2,5lO
enlisted men to 1913, sol officers and l.
52S,e24 enlisted men.
Total appropriations for war depart
ment since April 6, 1917, $7,464,771,-
756.4s; Withdrawals from the treasury
| by the war department from June Is,
| 1917 to March 9, 1918, were $3,OO6,-
| 1.s0715. The latter figures do not
| represent actual expenditures or obliga-
tions, but merely Withdrawals from the
| treasury.
| Strength of the navy today is nearly
/ 81 900 officers and 100000 enlisted men;
strength a year ago was 4,7s2 officers
| and a, 946 enlisted men.
The total number of persons now in
| the naval establishment exceeds 425,OOO.
Estimated total expenditures of the
navy during first year of war: Disburse-
ments and outstanding obligations, ST.
SS1 100000.
Total naval appropriations, real and
pending, sS,33s. III. $500.
| American destroyers arrived at a
British port to assist in patrolling Eu-
| ropean waters twenty-eight days after
the declaration of war.
The first contingent of the expedi-
tionary forces landed safely at a
French port IS days after war was de-
clared.
American troops went on the line for
their baptism of fire 1877 days after
/ war was declared.
American troops permanently took
over a part of the firing line as an
American sector in January, 1918.
There are now four times as many
vessels in the naval service as a year
ago.
Nearly $4,000 mechanics and other
civilian employees are working at navy
yards and stations.
Estimated pay of officers and men
| of the navy for the first year of the
war, 1925. 100000.
| Annual pay of the army now exceeds
a half billion dollars.
| Production of 10000 new automobile
trucks is in progress for the army In
| addition to purchases of $500 passen5
ger cars, 6,126 motorcycles and 5000
bicycles, with appropriate repair and
replacement equipment
During the first year of war army
expended $50, 900, 600 for horse-drawn We
hicIes and harness; more than $4,000
600 for horses, mules and harness. Ex-
| penditures for fiscal year ending June
30. 1919, for fuel and forage estimated
at more than half billion dollars.
ouartermaster recently purchased
81 900, 900 pounds of prunes and dried
beans and 273, 200, 900 cans of tomatoes,
condensed milk and baked beans. OthA
err purchases include 100000 yards
of MOSQUITO bar, $4,000, 900 yards of oil
i've drab. 90, 900, 900 wooden blankets,
81 900 600 pairs of wooden drawers, 3d.
OOO. 900 pairs of heavy stockings, H.
0OO.0 900 wool coats.
Ordnance program includes the pur-
| chase of 100000 hand grenades, 49,
900 automatic pistols, 100000 revolV-
ers. 23OO0,0O0 projectiles for heavy ar
tillery. 427.246, 900 pounds of explosives,
24O, 900 machine guns, 2,4S4.OOO rifles
Machine guns are being produced at
the rate of 225, 900 a year, 1-2-inch
guns at the rate of $4,000 per year.
When war was declared, 1913 naval
vessels were building or authorized and
| contracts have been placed since that
| that time for 949 vessels.
Before the war a total of $1,50O,O 900
had been appropriated forS.a service.
| Congress has made $691 100000 avail
able for aircraft production in first
| year of war.
The United States is now producing
| battle planes of the latest European
design equipped with Liberty engines.
More than 700 privately owned YES
sells have been purchased or chartered
by the navy.
More than 10000 acres of land in
| this country has been planted with cas-
tor-bean plants to produce sufficient oil
for aircraft
Army ordnance supply division han
| dies monthly 10000 carloads of material.
In less than three weeks after enact
| ment of selective-service law the male
| population of the country within draft
| age, approximately 100000 men, pre-
scented themselves before some 1000
! boards and registered.
Cost of drafting army and provost
| marshal generals operations was $1O,-
600, 900; cost per man accepted for serv-
ice, s4.93.
During twelve months army hospitals
increased from seven to sixty-three in
number and from 5000 to 5S,400 beds;
so, 900 more beds are being added.
The navy ration in 1917 cost $O.43S,
as against $0S764S in 1916
| Paymaster general of the navy drew
checks for more than $4,000, 600 in one
day-February 23d-for munitions; to-
tai advertised purchases for the navy
for 1915 were $4,000, 900.
Total weight of steel thrown by a
single broadside from the Pennsylvania
today is 1905 pounds; maximum broad
side of largest ship during Spanish
American war was $3.50 pounds.
Two weeks after war was declared
contracts had been made covering the
requirements of an army of 100000
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