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Show GREAT PROM IDE J m Will Be More Than Twice as Large by 1920 as at Beginning of 1917. WASrUNGTON, Nov. 22. America 's naval strength will be about twice as gri-at by JDL'O as it was in 19.17, tbe year tho Unite I States entered the world war, it was brought out today before the house naval committee in conhleriii the naval a ppropr la tum bill. Xn com tiara t ivc statement was iivcn voiiu riling capita I shi ps, but the tot a! number of nil sJii us will be about tiOO, a,!x compared wit h .'100 in . 11 I 7. Twenty-four dreadnoughts will bo included in-cluded in the lleet. There are now n i tie teen and fi ve will bo built before duly, Ptiio. Three hundred and fifty new drstrovers also will be completed by that. time. Pear Admiral Taylor, chief of the J Const ruction division of the navj", enumerating enu-merating vessels added or to be added I between Hi 1 7 ami 10'Ji). named M.jO sub- i marine chasers, 112 patrol boats, thirty-I (ie or forty submarines, lifty mine I (Continued on Page Three.) GREAT PROGRESS IS 10E BY Miff (Continued From Page One.) sweepers, twentv-five tugs and five dreadnoughts. Submarine chasers are now io commission, but will not be in 1920, he said. The 350 destroyers in 1920 will be an increase of 2o0, the admiral said, and will be complete in eighteen months. About 1000 vessels are now in the navy, including a number num-ber of converted craft which will disappear. dis-appear. "How many destroyers has England?" En-gland?" asked Representative Butler of Pennsvlvania. Admiral Taylor replied that the figures were not available, but that he thought England had between 300 and 100. Chairman Padgett and Representative Kelly of Michigan, however, how-ever, said thev understood that England had about 500. The committee decided to call on Secretary Sec-retary Daniels and the general hoard ol the navy for a comparative statement of the world's navies. Attention of the committee was directed to the Eagle boat construction program. Admiral Taylor exhibited a copy of the contract with the Eord Motor company, showing that the company com-pany receives a fixed protit of $20,000 on each hat. It may also receive one-fourth one-fourth of the amount that is saved under an estimated cost of $275,000 each. "I don't believe that the boat? can be built at that price," said Admiral Taylor. |