The Washington herald., 1918-04-07

OF 1,0O0,O0O men, this material COM
prislng s,7Oo,ooo items. ~.
More than 1l,0oo manufacturers
bid for navy business.
Our fourteen-inch guns weigh
nearly ninty-fiye tons and are IS 1-3
feet long, costing $11S.o0O.
Six new authorized battleshIps
are designed to be Of 1850 tons.
the largest battleships in the
world.
Our IS, COTTON cruisers, thirty-five
knots, will be the fastest In the
world, their speed equalling the
fastest destroyers.
Air personnel increased from six
five officers and 1,120 men to 100
times that number in first year of
war. Eleven kinds Of schools have
been installed.
Two powder plants to. cost $l5,-
10000 each are under construc-
ton.
Prompt repairs of 100 interned
German ships, partially wrecked
by their crews, added more than
10000 tons to QUE available naval
and merchant tonnage.
During the year nearly $1,000 let
tiers, many including detailed
plans, were received from the in
ventive genius OF the country by
the Naval Consulting Board con-
cerning methods for combating the
German U-boats.
War prisoners and alien enemies
numbering 2.040 are now confined
in three barracks in Georgia and
Utah.
Psychological examinations of
10000 officers and men have been
made.
To February 20. Director General
of Military Railways had placed
orders for railway supplies valued
at SIC. 900 and with an aggre-
gate weight of $4,000 long tons:
the General Engineer Depot, 70
February !, issued $500 orders for
material valued at $50. 10000.
For training troops in canton
ments 1000 O0.OOO rounds Of ammu-
milton have been bought.
The navy has developed an
American mine believed to COM
bine all the good points Of various
types of mines. and, is manufact-
uring them in quantities.
Army medical training schools
have been created with capacity
OF 1900 officers and men, 1900
enlisted men, and 5000 officers al
ready trained and graduated.
Naval communication service
operates all radio service; 5000
youths are studying radioteleg-
raphy at two naval schools.
Medical officers numbering 1915
are members of the medical de-
partment of the navy. Navy main
tains 1000 hospital beds and 5000
are being added.
OF S3,2os candidates for officers
commissions at two officers train
ing camps. A.57s were successful;
a third series is now in progress
with 1900 attendance.
During the year the latest type
OF naval 1S-inch gun was COM
pleted for our new battleships; II
pounds.
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, Young Women's Christian
Association. and Knights of Co.
lumbus huts are fixtures in the
life of every soldier and sailor;
hostess houses have been built in
thirty-two cantonments and
camps; sixteen liberty theaters
are running in army camps and
fifteen are ordered constructed;
all camps have athletic fields, one
having twenty-six gridirons.
-> Appropriations available for ex-
penditure for the naval service for
the fiscal year ending June 60,
1915, total $l.7E, 1O9, 1000.
Navy has in its possession now
a stock of supplies sufficient for
the average requirements for al
least one year.
Average monthly disbursements
by Ordnance Department of the
army during the first year of war
Were over $50 OO0 mn
About 5000 officers and men arc
engaged in cost patrol work of
the navy.
Several hundred submarine
chasers. built since the war. have
been delivered to the navy by
thirty-one private concerns and
six navy yards; many of these
boats have crossed the Atlantic,
some in severe weather.
The Signal Corps has sent thou
sands of trained pigeons to
France.
The Ordnance department
manufactures about 100000 items
One type of gun with its car
riage has 1880 parts. exclusive OF
accessories.
Through a card catalogue
system 109,4S7 men have been
transferred out of army divi-
sions into technical units to
function according to individual
educational, occupational, and
military qualifications.
Quartermaster expended or
obligated $53,960.S57 for con-
struction and repair of hospi-
tails.
Present average daily mail
handled by the Adiutant Gem
eral is approximately $1,000
pieces.