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Show VILL NEED 200,000 RECRUITS FOR NAVY "WASHINGTON", Dec. 17. Two hundred hun-dred thousand men must be recruited for the.- navy next year to take the places men w1 w'" be demobilized. Captain 'm- Daning, chief of the bureau of navi- f nation, made this estimate today in ask-Jr ask-Jr ing the house naval affairs committee for J n appropriation of $12,000,000 to cover transportation and recruiting expenses. Captain Laning announced that 10 per cent of the men of the regular naval force will be discharged at once and that by July 1, next, 150,000 men of the present I force will have been released.- None will j be discharged from certain branches like the radio and hospital corps, which must be maintained at their present strength.. |