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Show ENLISTED MEN ARE MOSTLY CITIZENS WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 Nearly 95.6 per cent of the enlisted men in the navy are citizens of the t'nited States and the rest are mostly Filipinos or from the country's other insular possessions. A letter from Rear Admiral Victor Blue, chief of the bureau of navigation, announcing an-nouncing this fact wa-s read toiay in the senate by request of Senator Tillman, who had forwarded the admiral a warning warn-ing he had received aeaJnst permit tint; foreigners to cnltat in the navy and merchant mer-chant marine. "The n;tvy has been Americanized," Admiral Blue wrote, "by getting- young men from the farms and from occupations occupa-tions not connected with the sea." |