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Show KNOX REPORTS THE NAVY DOUBLED IN ITS STRENGTH The strength of the Navy in combatant ships has been doubled since the first of the year, accord-cording accord-cording to Secretary Frank Knox, who reports that 419 warships have been added to the fleet. This does not include auxiliaries mine, patrol and landing craft. It includes forty aircraft carriers of all types, some of them being converted con-verted merchantmen. Apparently it counts more than 200 destroyer-escorts destroyer-escorts and around forty submarines. subma-rines. What else is in the 1,000,000 tons of warships can be guessed but some battleships, cruisers and destroyers have certainly been added to the fleet, which has lost twenty-one warships since Jan. 1. These, says Mr. Knox, will be replaced re-placed by additional ships that will be delivered between now and the first of the year. |