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Show NAVAL DEPARTMENT At the present rate of increasing armaments the United States will be twice as strong as Japan upon the sea in 1924. and stronger than Great Britain in battleships. The Fleets of France and Italy are below Japan's in strength, and are not formidably increasing in strength. Germany has the right by treaty to create a small navy. Other nations have no fleets that need be considered. A recent editorial in the Washington Washing-ton Post, gives the following figures of the sums devoted to their armies and navies by certain countries in the year before the war as compared with the last year: United States 1914, $245,000,-000; $245,000,-000; 1920, $2,506,000,000. Great Britain 1914, 396,000,000 1920, l,15p.000,000. France 1914, 363.000,000; 1920 $1,023,500,000. Italy 1914, 133,500,000; 1920 $1,074,000,000. Japan $9S.000.000; 1920, 272,-000,000. 272,-000,000. Senator Lodge comments on this subject: "Reduction of arms means the greatest possible reduction in expenditures ex-penditures and money saving for the people." |