Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-13

[The following notes are from the Official Review of the War. issued by the Committee on Public Informa- tion:]
 The annual pay of the Army now exceeds $500, 900, 900.
 Production of 10000 new automo- bile trucks is in. progress for the Army.
 The Navy ration in 1917 cost $04S, as against $O.376S4 in 1916
 Our 14inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons and are over 58 feet long, costing SIS, ,000
 Our 35,OOo-ton cruiser, capable of 8 knots. will be the fastest in the world
 l About 50 900 officers and men are en-, gagged in coast patrol work of the Navy.
 American troops permanently took over a part of the firing line as an American sector in January, 1918. The Navy now has in it's possession 1 a stock of supplies sufficient for av- 1 craze requirements for one year. l More than 10000 acres of land in this country has been planted with castorbean plants to produce oil for aircraft.
 ] During F months the Army hos 1 pitals increased from to 6S in num-. l DCI dIIO HUH OyUUU lO 06,fUU- peOSJ 0V,- | 900 more beds are being added. 1 The disbursements and outstanding obligations of the Navy during the l first year of the war are estimated at l $1, 1,S61, 900, 900. Int total naval appro- priations. real and pending, are $3,- 933,171, ,665
 l There are now four times as many vessels in naval service as year ago. 1 The estimated pay of officers and men in the Navy for the first year of war was $125 ,000,0
 l The air personnel in the first year of war increased from 65 officers and 1,129 men to one hundred times that number. Eleven kinds of school have been installed -
 Several hundred submarine chasers, built since the war, have been deliver ed to the Navy by 31 private concerns land 6 navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the Atlantic, some l in severe weather.
 | Through a card catalogue system 109 487 men have been transferred out | of Army divisions into technical units to function according to individual educational, occupational, and moili- 1 tary qualifications.
 During the first year of war the Army paid b60,00o,oOO for horse l drawn vehicles and harneSs; more than 1000 900 for horses, mules, and harness. Expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, for fuel and forage are estimated at more than $500,000, 900. 1 To February 20, the Director Gen eral of Military Railways had placed orders for railway supplies valued at $142,000,O00 and with an aggregate weight of 754.000 long tons:s the Gen ,T1 &A CT.t,, S issued $500 orders for material valued at $202, 000, ,000
 l Among the purchases of the 1 Quartermaster's, Department are 61,- 000,000 pounds of prunes. and dried beans; 2T3000,00 cans of tomatoes condensed milk, and baked beans 40000,000 yards of mosquito bar. F5. 100000 yards of olive drab: 20,00o, 900 woolen blankets: 31 100000 pairs of wolen drawers; 50,O0o 900 pairs oi heavy stockings; 11,OO0,00D wool coats The Ordnance program includes the purchase of g 100000 hand grenades | 725,000 automatic pistols. 250,000 re- volvers, 23,000 900 projectiles for heavy artillery, 27,246,000 pounds of ex- plosives, 240,00O machine guns, anG 2,4S4,0 rifles
 Congress has authorized s2.6s4. 900 900, of which sum $1,1S5, 900 ,00o ha. been appropriated. for the United 1 States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation; on. March 1, $553.
 247 7,955.37 of this sum had been ex pended. The Emergency Flee
 Corporation had requisitioned Marcr
 1, 425 steel vessels and contracted fol
 720 steel vessels, making a total o.
 1,145 steel ships, of an aggregate dead.
 weikht tonnage of. S.164,508 tons; i i had let contracts for 490 wooden yes.
 sels, agsregating approximately 1,.
 715,O00 dead-weight tons; it had re.
 paired and put in operation 7sS %,
 dead-weight tonnage seized from Ger
 many and Austria. On March tn,
 building program of the Emergency
 Fleet Corporation was being carried
 on in 151 plants