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Show WIS PREPARED ! FOR EMERGENCIES I SECRETARY DANIELS SAY8 OUR NAVY IS IN THE BEST OF 8HAPE IN CASE OF WAR. Two Hundred and Twenty-five Vessels Now In Commission, One Hun- ' dred In Reserve and 77 Under Construction. Washington. Secretary Daniels on Sunday mado public a letter ho has wrltton to President Gnrfleld of Williams Wil-liams college, dotalllng the work In tho navy during tho last two years Mr. Danlols wrote In reply to Mr. Garfield's Gar-field's request for matorlal to meet j statements that tho United States is , unprepared for military emergencies. Secretary Daniels says there are now In active service fully commissioned commis-sioned 225 vessels ot all characters, which 1b thirty-six moro than wero fully commissioned when he became secretary. Thoro are also 101 vessels of various typos in reserve and in or-1 dlnary and uncommissioned, cnpablo ' ot rendering service In war. Wo have ' under construction nnd authorized soVenty-soven vessels (nlno dreud- I naughts, twenty-threo dostroycrs, thlr-ty-olght submarines and seven auxiliaries), auxil-iaries), as compared with fifty-four vessels (five dreadnaughts, fourteen destroyors, twenty-throo submarines, . threo gunboats and nlno auxiliaries), which wore under construction on March 1, 1913. All tho vessels enumerated, thoso In nctlvo Bcrvlco and those In reserve, aro supplied with munitions of war. No navy makes public tho quantity of ammunition and torpodocB mlnos and other implements of navnl warfaro which it keeps ready. Tho personnel of the navy Is at present composod of 4,355 lino, stnff and warrant officers, nnd 83,171 enlisted en-listed men. Increases In tho number of officers is dependent almost entirely entire-ly upon the output of tho naval ncad-omy, ncad-omy, admission to which is rostrlctel by statute Tho number of enlisted mon also is restricted, and the navy Is today recruited to tho maximum Btrongth allowed. There aro now with tho colors 5,824 more men nn Increase In-crease of 12 por cent, than thoro wero on March 1, 1914. |