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NEWS NOTES.

Secretary Baker authorized the
statement that the total of army ap-
preparations for the fiscal year
1888 submitted to Congress was
approximately $4,000. 900, 900, with
$4,000, 900, for coast defenses. Maj
Gen. March, Acting Chief of Staff,
told the House Military Committee
that every existing cantonment
would be enlarged to provide for ad-
ditional troops to be modified. Ma.
tional Guard camps also will be used
to their capacity. This announce
ment came simultaneously with the
statement that a quarter million
more men had been called to the
colors. They will start May %.
In an executive session of the
Military Committee of the lower
house of Congress, Secretary of War
Baker, Maj Gen. March, Chief of
Staff, and Provost Marshal General
Crowder have asked Congress to give
the President blanket authority to
increase the United States army to
whatever size may be necessary to
win the war. This country now has
nearly 100000 men under arms,
and the Army Appropriation Bill for
80, N
: crease of this number to 100000.
Ukrainian peasant deputies are re-
ported to have overthrown the Gov
eminent of that republic. This re-
port follows closely a dispatch say
ing that many Ukrainian officials
had been imprisoned by the Ger
mans for conspiring against the
military authorities of tho Central
Powers. The new regime has an
nounced that it will carry out the
provisions of the Brest-Litovsk
treaty
Publication of the home addresses
of men reported in the casualty
lists from France will be resumed by
the War Department. 1t has been
determined that any military infor-
nation the enemy might gain from
the lists would not be of sufficient
value to justify the added anxiety
among the relatives of soldiers oc-
casioned by suppression Of this aid
to positive identification.
One hundred and seventy United
States warships, manned by 10000
sailors, now are in foreign waters,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in a
speech at the Y. M. C. A. in Brook
lyn. He said hardly day passes
that a ship is not added to the
American fleet. He said the navy
would be increased to nearly 500, 200
men before the end of tho year.
The British Admiralty has found
that the channel at Zeebrugge in
which old British cruisers recently
were sunk during tho naval raid on
the German submarine bases on the
Belgian coast, is still blocked and
will probably remain so for con-
siderable time in spite of the efforts
of the Teutons to dredge new chan
mel around the obstacles formed by
the wrecks of the warships.
The United States Public Health
Service is in need OF medical officers
for field duty in connection with the
sanitation OF several civil sanitary
districts. Men physically disquali-
fed from the Medical Reserve Corps
are eligible for these positions, pro-
sviding they are not suffering from
complaints that would seriously in
terfere with the performance of their
duties.
In the opinion of Lord Robert
Cecil, British Minister of Blockade,
a new peace offensive will follow the
failure of the German knockout Of
fensive' in France and Flanders.
New and attractive terms probably
will be offered, he thinks, but moth
ing reasonable enough for the Allies
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