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Show HOW LIBERTY BIOS HELP TOM I MR Director Horner Sets Forth Data in Letter to the Governor. Scope of increase in the army' and navy of the United States is set forth in a communication sent out by .Charles F. Horner, director of the Liberty loan speakers' bureau, and received yesterday by Captain F. V. Fitz Gerald, secretary tc Governor Bamberger. Incidentally, Mr. Horner tells what can be accomplished with the money derived from each denomination of Liberty bond when used in defense of the country and helping win the war. In the army, when the United States declared a slate of war to exist between this country and Germany, or on April 0, 1917, there were9524 oflicers and 202, 5 Hi privates; total, 212,034. On March 15,-191S, 15,-191S, there were 123, SOI officers and 1,528,-924 1,528,-924 privates; total, 1.G52.725. In the navy on April 6, 1917, there were 82,738 officers and men, and on March 15, 191S, there was a total of 352,000 officers and men in the service. What help ,is afforded to the government govern-ment in the purchase of Liberty bonds is given elucidation by Director Horner in the following exposition in instances to which the denominational illustration is applied: One $50 bond will provide trench knives for a rifle company, buy 23 hand grenades-buy grenades-buy 14 rifle grenades, buy 37 cases ' of surgical instruments for enlisted men's belts, buy 10 cases of surgical instruments instru-ments for officers' belts. One $100 bond will clothe a soldier, feed a soldier for eight months, provide 5 rifles, provide 30 rifle grenades, provide 45 hand grenades, provide. 25 pounds of ether, buy 14-5 hot water .bags, buy 2000 surgical needles. ' One 5300 and one $50 bond will clothe and equip an infantry soldier for service overseas, feed a soldier for a year. Two $100 bonds will buy a calavry horse, buy an ammunition mule, buy a horse for the captain of a machine gun i company, buy a mule to draw a water I cart or a combat cart. Three $100 bonds will clothe a soldier and feed him for one year in France, buy a motorcycle for a machine gun company. com-pany. Four $100 bonds will buy an X-ray outfit. One $500 bond will supply bicycles for j the headquarters company of an infan- i try regiment. One 1000 bond will buy an X-ray apparatus ap-paratus outfit, buy 6 cases of operating instruments for a "base hospital, furnish pistols for the men in a rifle company, furnish one rolling kitchen (motor), furnish fur-nish S ration carts. Three $1000 bonds will buy rifles for a field artillery battery, supply horses for a field signal battalion. Five $1000 bonds will buy one Liberty truck, buy 7 Lewis machine guns, equip a rifle company of an infantry regiment with rifles. Ten $1000 bonds wilt fully equip three hospital wards of fifty beds each, with beds - made up and linen in reserve, chairs, tables, mirrors, foot tubs, 120 pairs of pajamas, bath robes and towels; buy 6 large sterilising combination outfits in which wholesale sterilizing can be done,-buy done,-buy 6 motor ambulances. Kighteen $1000 bonds will equip an infantry in-fantry battalion with rifles. . Fifiv 1000 bonds will construct a base hospital with 500 beds, equip an infantry brigade with pistols. One hundred ?1000 bonds will buy 5 combat airplanes, buy SO motor trucks, buy 25 tractors, buy pistols, rifles and ot'0,000 rounds of ammunition for an in-1 in-1 fan try regiment. |