Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-12
INTERESTING
WAR NOTES

The annual pay Of the army now
exceeds S500,000 900.
Production of 10000 new automo-
bile trucks is in progress Tor the
army.
The Navy ration in 1917 cost
$0.438, as against S0.376S4 in 1916.
Our 14-inch guns weigh nearly 80
tons and are over. SO feet long, cost
ing $11S,0 00.
Our 81, 000-ton cruiser, capable of
35 knots, will be the fastest in the
world.
About 10000 officers and men are
engaged in coast patrol work of the
Navy.
American troops permanently took
over a part of the hiring line as an
American sector in January, 1918.
The Navy o has in its posses
sion a stock of supplies sufficient for
average requirements for n year.
More than $4,000 acres Of land il
this country has been planted wit
castor-bean plants to produce oil TO-
aircraft.
During IL months the Army hos
pitfalls increased from Z to 90 in num-
Der and from 5000 to 5S,400 beds;
10000 more beds are being added.
The disbursements and outstanding
obligations of the Navy during the
first year Of the war are estimated
at 1881, 900, 900. The total naval
appropriations, real and pending, are
So ,333,171 ,665.
There are now four times as many
vessels in naval service as a year ago.
The estimated pay of officers and
men in the Navy for the first year
of war was $125, 900, 900.
The air personnel in the first year
of the war increased from 65 officers
and 1920 men to one hundred times
that number. Eleven kinds of schools
have been installed.
Several hundred submarine chasers
built since the war, have been deliv.
cred to the Navy by 81 private con.
Germs and 6 navy yards; many Of
these boats have crossed the Allan.
tic, some in severe weather.
Through a card catalog system
109,487 men have been transferred
out of Army divisions into technica
units to function according to individ
ual educational, occupational, ant
military qualifications.
During the first year Of war tn,
Army paid $50, 900 for horse
drawn vehicles and harness; NOR,
than $50, 900, 900 for horses, mules
and harness. Expenditures for tn,
fiscal year ending June 80, 1919, TO.
fuel and forage are estimated at NOR,
than $500, 000, 900.
To February 20, the Director Gen
eral of Military Railways had places
orders for railway supplies valued a
1000 900 and with an aggregat
weight of 754, ZOO long tons; the Gen
eral Engineer Depot, to February !
issued $500 orders for material val
ued at $202, 000, 600.
Among the purchases of the Quar-
termaster's department are $1,000,
900 pounds of prunes and dried beans
273,000,00O can Of tomatoes, cor
densed milk, and baked beans; 40
O00,0 900 yards of mosquito bar; rs
600 900 yards of olive drab; 10000
600 wooden blankets; 1000, 900 pair
of WOODEN drawers; $4,000, 900 pair
of heavy stockings; IL, o 900 woo
coats. The Ordnance program ir
cludes the purchase of $4,000, 90
hand grenades, 725, 900 automatic pi:
tolls, 100000 revolvers, 23,000,O O
projectiles for heavy artillery, APT
246, 900 pounds of explosives 24,0O
machine guns, and 2,484,000 rifles.
Congress has authorized $2,034
100000, Of which sum $1,135, o ,OC
has been appropriated, for the Unite
States Shipping Board and Emel
gency Fleet Corporation; on March
1858, 247, 955.37 of this sum had bee
expended. The Emergency File,
Corporation had requisitioned Marc
1, 425 steel vessels and contracte
for ~ steel vessels, making a tot
of LAS steel ships, of an aggregat
lightweight tonnage of $685. sos ton
it had let contracts for 400 woode
vessels, aggregating approximate.
1,7i5,000 dead -weight tons; it had r
paired and put into operation 1896
lightweight tonnage seized fro
Germany and Austria. On March
the building program Of the Eme
gency Fleet Corporation was beir
carried on in Isl plants.