Arizona republican., 1922-04-09

| required to make the IL capitat snip
fleet complete, well rounded out and
properly manned and officered.
in short the bill seeks to give ef~
| feet to all reductions made possible
| By the work of the conference ana
at the same time makes ample pro-
vision for maintaining our relative
strength unimpaired.
| ct will be interesting 10 the courf-
| try to know that Great Britain has
| provided in her estimates for the
| coming year for but 9S.500 officers
enlisted men, marines and students
| in training schools and naval acade-
| mics. This number also includes
| about 5000 men in the coast guard
| service while our coast guard is un-
| der the treasury department. 1t does
| not. however, include personnel tor
aviation while the bill reported makes
provision for 2700 men for aviation
| II ought also to be said that the
British figures do not include about
| 1000 officers, men and boys. nlain-
| tanned by the dominion governments
| principally by Australia.
"The whole number of officers. en-
| listed men marines. students and
| midshipmen provided for in this bill
numbers $1,000. So that the British
naval establishment and ours. so far
as personnel is concerned. viii stand
| almost exactly at the same point. The
estimates for the British navy. ex-
elusive of pensions, amounts to o.
900 900 pounds. Calculating a pound
at S4.30. it's present exchange value,
the British appropriations for the
coming year tor naval purposes would
amount to 1924, 900 600. This bill car
ries $233,224.0 900. or almost identically
the same amount.
No Japanese Figures
"As to Japan. figures as to per-
sonnel or probable appropriations are
not available. However, Japan lis
permitted to retain only 10 battle
ships under the treaty. She has all
told. but 50 destroyers and " sub
marines. With such q small fleet It
is difficult to imagine how she could
use in excess of 10000 men in her
navy.
1T will be seen, therefore, that
whether measured by personnel pro-
vided for or by the total amount pro
vided for by The fighting strength and
efficiency of the ships to be Kept IN
full commission, the bill reported 10
congress preserves the e-flve-three
ratio agreed upon by the conference
a reality the hope and expectancy
created by the conference that the
enormous burdens incident to prep
arations for war would be materially
reduced. ! bespeak for the bill the
wholehearted support OF the Amer
lean people.
Secretary Denby's original esti-
mate called for 10000 enlisted men
and 5000 apprentices. Because OF the
heavy enlisted cut the committee left
the officer personnel. line and staff,
about where II was. With the ELM
ination of $50 reserves now on ac-
tive duty and counting upon the Of
ficers from the naval academy, the
total will be 1856. The navy got
nearly all it asked in revised esti-
mates for fuel, the bill carrying Vs.
| 900 900.
The committee estimated it would
cost $4,000 900 TO complete the bat-
tleships Washington and West Nir-
ginia and two of the battle cruisers
as airplane carriers.
The bill provides that any unex-
pended appropriations in last year
bill shall be applied toward the COM
pletion of vessels now under con-
| struction, not affected by the treaty,
| Chairman Madden of the appro-
/ priations committee declared in a
statement that the only request by
/ the navy department not complied
with had reference to 20 destroyers
which it was sought to have kept in
half commission.
"But provision has been made" he
added, ''for all the patrol services re-
quested BY the navy in Mediterranean
| waters, in the Far East and in South
American waters. Every submarine
requested by the navy has been pro-
vided for on the basis of being KEEP
in full commission"
The navy, under the bill, Mr. Mad
] den asserted. will be strictly a five
five-three navy"