Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-18
GREAT WORK DONE BY
US NAVY IN WAR IS
RELATED BY DANIELS
Activities During the Great Con-
flict Belted the World
With Ships.
TOOK $1,000 TO EUROPE
ny Josephus Daniels.

ny Josephus Daniels.
Former Secretary OF the Navy 1919
to 1921.
Copyright. 1921, by John r. Ollie. Copy
rtgh{ed by National Newspaper Service,
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Let me tell YOU few OF the big
things the navy did in the world war,
some of which you may not realize.
Even in peace times the navy's oper-
ations extend over considerable por-
tion of the globe. with fleets in the Al
lantic, the Pacific and the Far East.
During the war our ships operated
from Archangel and the White sea. IN
northern Russia. to the Adriatic and the
Mediterranean; In the North sea, in
English and Irish waters. all along the
coast OF France. Spain and Portugal,
An Italian waters, I'm the Azores; pa
troled our own coasts and the western
Atlantic. the Gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean sea, the South American
coast. guarded the Panama canal, ana
maintained vast fleet of troop ships,
cargo transports and conveying vessels
carrying troops, munitions and sup
Niles from America TO Europe.
Guarding against possible raiders and
German activities in the Pacific, our OPP
slations extended from our own west
coast to Hawaii. Guam and the Philip-
plnes and the few vessels left in the
orient co-operated with the japanese
and other allied naval forces from
Manila 10 Nladlvostok.
Activities Belted the World.
When we were pressing into service
in the war zone" all available anti
submarine craft. a fiotilla of our small
aestroyers stationed at Cavite made the
voyage from the Philippines through
the straits. the Indian Ocean, the Red
sea, through the SueZ canal ana the
Mediterranean TO Gibralter. where they
dd yoeman service in convoy oAty
from that center of ocean traffic. Thus
during the war the navy's activities
literally bcited the globe.
Before hostillties ended we had IN
service In European waters S1s vessels
Including 20 destroyers. gunooats,
coast guard cutters, l2O submarine
,hasers, 20 armed yachts, II suoina-
rlneS. 10 mine sweepers, 10 mine pant.
trs. \ battleships, > cruisers, 10 TUGS,
,rnss-channei transports. 55 vessels,
and repair ships, and : vessels OF mis-
.ellaneous types. In addition. there
N,are thirty other vessels assigned q
IN, European force then undergoing re-
palrs ur being prepared To so into COM
Iulselon So that the total number as
r.gutI 10 the European forces was
eecT 400.
Big Force Engaged.
sta ~ the
naVs were in service in Europe. Thirty
tnol.aua marines were sent overseas
far service with the army and 1900 for
naval duty ashore. That makes total
81 ever 600 officers and msn or the
navy and marlna corps that were IN
tervirc in Europe.
put that hy no means covers all the
service We performed for the aliles ano
,,.r own forces III Europe. The entire
cruiser and transport force. with It's s.
Aesarls manned By 5000 officers and Al
tBu men: and the naval overseas trans
porfatlan service. with as Nessels II
..neration manned by 4,os2 officers anc
yNIgs men. were In TRANSATLANTIC ser
kles. carrying troops and supplies Z
oaf armies and our allies. Practically al
tine merchant ships and others whlcf
carried armed guards and navy guns
were carrying food, materials and otnei
articles TO allied countries. The nav.
armed 9S4 merchant and cargo SHIPS
nd $4,000 Of the navy personnel were
IA one time OF another. engaged IN tni'
service,
sso.ooa ofhcers and Men.
Thus a total of sS4 vessels and ap
lroximately 22o.000 officers and men Q
ihe United states navy and marin'
snrps were engaged either in actua
European service or in Transatlantic
esfVice 10 and from Europe. That i
almost three times as many as were u
inc entire navy and marine corps be
lore the war.
But that was not nearly all we wer'
prcparing 10 do. nd would have done
II the war had con. led into 1919 al
was expected. Many I. -usands OF mel
we're in training to mai ae new de
stroxers and other vessels We wer'
building and the hundreds the shipping
board had under construction. Our wal
building program included a thousant
vessels. OF all types, from battleship
10 submarine chasers. We contracted
For 27s destroyers in 1917. The build
ere were breaking all records in con
struction: a number had been com
lileted and put into service before tn
armlstice. But we were just reaching
the peak Of production when they woulc
be turned out by the score The ship
ping board was building cargo ships s.
rapidly that the total number OF yes
sells already assigned 10 the naval over
seas transportation service was 4so
which would bring that feet up 70 9