The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-04-13
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ITOuuCtIOu VI ~, WV uVV ""'V
mobile trucks is in progress tor
the Army.
The Navy ration in 1917 cost
80 43S, az against 80 1864 in
1916.
Our Ia inch guns weigh nearly
80 tons and are over So feet long,
costing &1lS,OO0
Our $4,000 ton cruiser, capable
Of 30 knots. will be the fastest In
the world.
About $4,000 officers and men
are engaged in coast patrol work
Of the Navy.
American troops permanently
took over u part Of the firing line
as an American sector in January,
1918.
The Navy now has in it's posses
sion q stock Of supplies sufficient
for average requirements for one
year.
More than "a, 200 acres Of land
in this country has been planted
with castor bean plants to produce
OIL for aircraft.
Daring IL months the Army
hospitals Increased from 7 to 63 in
number and from 5000 to So, 400
beds; 80, 900 more beds are being
added.
The disbursements aud outst and.
ing obligations of the Navy during
the first year Of the year are est.
mated at 81, 8Sl 10000 The to
tai naval appropriations, real and
pending, are q, 333,l7l,655
There are now tour times as
many vessels in naval ser vice a.
year ago. The estimated pay Of
officers and men in the Navy for
the first year of war was 1928,
100000.
The air personnel il the first
year Of war increased from Is OH
GERS and 1, 100 men to one hundred
times that number. Eleven kinds
OF schools have been installed.
Several hundred subn arins
chasers, bnilt siuce the war, have
been delivered to the Navy by 81
private concerns and 8 navy yardr;
many Of these boats have crossed
the Atlantic, some IN severe
weather.
Through . card catalogue sys
TEN 109, 4S7 men have been uaus.
ferred out Of Amy divisions into
technical units to function accord
ing to individu MAI educational, oc
cupationsl, and military quallfica.
tons.
During the 6rst year of war the
Army PAID 100000 900 for horse.
drawn vehicles aud harness; more
than $4,000, 900 for horses, mules,
and harness. Expenditures for
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1919, for fuel ana forage are esti-
mated at more than 5000, 600, 600.
TO February 20, the Director
General Of Military Railways had
placed orders for railway supplies
valued at $i42,O0O,O0O and with
an aggregate weight Of 754, 900
long tons; the Conceal Engineer
Depot, to February /, issued $500
orders for material valued ut 1902,
900, 900.
Among the purchases of the
Quarter masters Department are
u, 900. 600 pounds OF prunes aud
dried beans; $4,000, 900 cans Of
tomatoes, condensed milk. and
baked beans; 10000, 900 yards Of
mosquito bar; 20 600, 900 yards Of
olive drab; ~, 100000 wooden
blankets; ii. 600 900 pairs of wool
en- drawers; $4,000, 900 pairs of
heavy stockiDges 100000 wool
coats. The Ordinance program IN
cludes the purchase of $4,000, 900
baud gresadee, 725, 900 automa tic
pistols, ESQ, 900 revolvers, %, OOO,.
600 prOjectiles for heavy artillery,
Az, GAG. 000 pounds of explosives.
24O, coo machine guns, and 2,4S4,
0O0 rifles
i Congress has authorized o., O34,.
V0O, o00s Of which sum e1.135, OOO,.
II 0ON has been appropriated, for the
Unite0 States Shipping Board
and Emergency Fleet Corporation;
on March l, 1888, 247,9553 of
this sum had been expended.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation
had reQuisisisned March l, 425
steel vessels aud contracted for
72O steel vessels, making \ total
Of |, lao steel ships, of an aggre
gate dead weight tonnage Of 8, 164,
sos tone; IL had let contracts To-,
400 wooden vessels. aggregating
approximately 1,7l5.OO0 dead.
weight tOtls; 1t had repaired and
put in operation 1888 900 dead.
weight tonnage seized from Ger
many ana Austria. On March 8
the buildisg program of the Emer
gency Fleet Corporation was being
carried on in 151 plants.