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Show li mm "i OFILLi ill Both Great Britain and the United States Showing Improvement. LONDON", At?. 3. The secretary of the admiralty has made public figures dealing with the naval situation of the allU-s. The British navy, apart froin the American Amer-ican forces, consists of waa-shlps and auxiliary craft, with a tot.il displacement of fj,o'.tO.''(W) tons, against 2,.".0!.i)'Ju in August, Au-gust, llil-l. Duriny that period about . Three-riuarters of a million tons have been lost, bi;t ai rhe pi-eca-m day the growth of the fleet shows ;m increa.se of 1H0 Pr epn l. The original l-jr,rou officers and men have ;'!uvn to ::;u.u'.u. Sir Lrie Geddes, first lord of the ad-mi ad-mi rally, on March lit IS, said British and A merican naval forces were sinking sink-ing submarines as fas I as they were built, and on the 30th of July, says the statement, he announced that during the la.-it t hree months of the fir :d, half of 101.- the world output of tonnage exceeded ex-ceeded the world's losses from all causes ,; by no less than Km, '.'00 tons per month. In the period from April to June of lost vr-ar, before t iie convoy system was csrahlished. 1-tri t ish steamers suffered looses throm: h enemy action of 5. 41 per cent cf thrir total number. From March tt June of this year, during which 93.8 per cent of the ships were convoyed, the losses hat; dropped to 1.23 per cent. A merican trocps wno readied Europe hy July 27 of this yc-:ir totaled well over one million. Ni-arly half of these were ..c-irried by American ships and the United States furnished for them forty ocean escorts and 335 escorts of destroyers. The total tc-n nacre of .ships of all nationalities na-tionalities convr.yed in all trades since the intvDduction of the convov system is 61.C91.00v. of which 373-,0uC, or approximately approxi-mately .Hi per cent, has been lost while in convoy. Since August 14, 1014, the "British navy . has transported nearly 20,000.000 men to different destinations. 2,000,000 animals and 110,000,000 tons of naval and military mili-tary stores. The men lost through enemy action during dur-ing transportation bear the proportion of 1 to every 0000 carried. |