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Show RECRUITS FLOCK 10 MAW FLEETS Many U. S. Warships Given Full Crews and Put in Operation 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. S. R-eruitiii(T for the, navy i progressing o setlsfa -toriiy that naval officials bellevt H i soon will be possible to send to fea si large number of vessels of a!l classes (now carried on paper is part of the fleets, but aotuglly tied up :,t S-Vy urOr for lack of crews. I Recruits are entering the f:vicc at a rate exceeding 8,800 a wee and the training stations are dally sending !: rge numbers of men to the fleets af Iter tho usual four months of I raining. nM SHIPS TIED UP I 1 u Nov. I. lue navy ft'js only 28,0001 Inter) short or tin- authorised strength! iof the approximately 143.000 and H Is I balled .it Hi.' department that the full ; Strength wll be reached before M.ii h, Ll. Eighteen battloshlps nre now with the Atlantic ami Pacific fleet on cmiS-linn cmiS-linn duty while four others have rcdttC-l 1 (d . ti-w. . Thirteen of the older iypl are out of commission 'entirely I I m the .':: modern destroyera om- plot eri and turned over to thr ni , only BE ;:r- uow !m full commiBsiOn i il of thth.' .'"i are In European haters or are outfitting for service abroad. f the rcmalnd r 1 2 are laid up frith! crews v( thirty men aboard ahd the, I others ai- pu "f oammiaaloh entirely. UFI'KND III U 181 S 11 i" explained 1 thr navy depart-1 Iment tha is no exportation of ever I placing full prewi aboard all the de idestroers in time of peace a the navj , now has a super-ahundancc of this t'pe of ess la. About forty per cent of the destroy-1 ers eventually Will be kept fully mun- lltCd an.l on duty with the fleets undi the other;; given onlj large enough crews to keep thorn ready for duty in .' time of omergenc) The naval reserve force, naval offi-, : CI rs sa , ' an always t'e lependeJ upon ; 'o provide trained crews for both ie-stroyers ie-stroyers and battleships in reserve iivu occasion demauda, No modern submarines are out of; I commission, according to ivhh1 offi-clals, offi-clals, but a5 of these vessels of the! j older typeK, arc without full crews.' I'Dlirtlculty has i-n experienced In; tnilnhiK men lor the s'i Iniu-rsibles due, to the peculiar technical nature of the' ( Ell IM )R v S M V r the Elfty-five Eagle ioats on the' navj llsl ;:i are fulh manned, with; I cruisers anl gunboats in full com-! mand and 2i in reduced commission! are laid up- Th substantial Increase In pay urunted the navy at the last :;c-si.ionl i o; ruiiKrfs.s to.FPth. i with the recent I arinounoem'ent of an extended crul.se by th Aitant'c and Pacific flootsthlsl K-lnter, to pi rv.s it; south America, Af- t ea. Australia and New Zealand, have i ryed to j,t. uly stimulate enlistments, i loffici.iis in r? partlnent say. oo 1 |