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Show CUT BILLION OFF WESTIITE Discharge of Twenty Per Cent of Wartime Personnel. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. More than a billion dollars has been cut from the navy's estimate ot expenditures for the coming fiscal year. Secretary Daniels disclosed today that the est i mates sent to congress Monday were based on the war program and that the reduction process that alreadv has eliminated over two-fifths of the J2,tiUiJ,0UO,0U"J total is continuing. Oischaiiie of 20 per cent of the navy's war-time personnel, about lOO.OO'i men, hay been a u i iiorized. Secret ary I lanlels said today the men would be released as quickly as possible, with due regard to the convenience of the service. Priva I e yach ts, motor boats ami other craft taken over by the navy for the war already are being turned back to their owners. Mr. L-'aniels said by February Feb-ruary 7 !U craft will have been stricken from the navy list. The iclease ,f enlisted men is authorized, author-ized, nut beeause the navy is overmanned, but to permit the return to civil pursuits pur-suits of you t lis who joined for the war arid who do not intend to follow the sea. Members of navai units in schools and enllepes will complete their t rain one and then stand d iseba rped. In the cases of spee'iM student bodes, such as thf paymaster:- school at Princeton and the en- 'i;iis' s -I at A jtnapolb:, students inj the pre-. 'lit el.!-s,.-s upon cradualioli will! be com :c. i -s exiled in the reserve. |