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Show WANTS A VERY jA ISj -i S AUK WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Appropriations Appropri-ations to provide a navy for the United States by 1925 as large as that of any other country was urged today by Admiral Ad-miral Badger, of the general board of the navy before the house naval committee. com-mittee. Had tho United States been fighting alone in the present war, the admlrak said, its lack of ships would have been serious and perhaps fatal, because It has been learned that the navy must be strong enough not only to protect from invasion but also to drive the enemy's navy from the seas. He told tho committee that the country coun-try never has been, and probably never nev-er will be again, as well prepared to build a powerful fleet as at present. Hundreds of thousands of men have become skilled In shipyards which have been building vessels for the merchant marine, he said, and as fast as these yards are released from that wdrk, the training and experience of these men should be utilized to the greatest extent possible. One hundred and fifty German and seven Austrian submarines were sunk in the war prior to August, Admiral Badger told the committee, quoting re I ports from Admiral Sims. Ho said the Germans had built 331 submarines and that the Austrian underwater fleet comprised only thirty-five craft, ten of which were obsolete. On August 1, last, Admiral Badger ' said, tho Germans had 119 submarines ' operating in the Atlantic and twenty-eight twenty-eight in the Mediterranean, while at tho same time Austria had eighteen in the Mediterranean. !. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 Railroads under government control spent a half billion dollars for additions, betterments better-ments and new equipment during the ten months up to November 1 or about twice as much as in the same period of recent years previously, it was shown today by a railroad administration administra-tion report. Charges to capital account ac-count amounted to $463,617,000 including includ-ing 5203,373,000 for additions and betterments bet-terments to tracks and for new build Ings and 5245,139,000 for cars and locomotives. loco-motives. oo |