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Show Tl ARSENAL TO GET 5000 DNS OF JADED MUNITIONS natnt Evacuating Nine Temporary Storage ffepots; About $345,900 Available for I Transportation Ammunition to V Local Station y 601 tons of loaded II be shipped to perma-thc perma-thc Ogden arsenal, ac-lent ac-lent plana of the war tils Information was relay re-lay by Secretary Je6se the Ogden Chamber of i United States Senator will be made from temporary ordnance hments now in process t: Morgan general ord-uth ord-uth Am boy. N. J-. Am-nerve Am-nerve depot, Hammon-ftown Hammon-ftown ordnance reserve n, Pa , Seven Pines kre depot. Seven Pines, ordnance reserve do-Va do-Va , and Toledo ord-ffepot. ord-ffepot. Toledo. O. OGDE.V SHIPMENTS lunlcation to Secretary tor King enclosed tho, lUnicatlon from Gen-, pee. assistant chief of tat available estimates hat It will require at from the totAl appro- 2,351 appropriated bv ivacuatlon of nine tern- porary ordnance storage establishments, establish-ments, shipments of material Involved In-volved In each case being made to the nearest available permanent storage depot. It is estimated that all of the remaining $642,361 approximately 34:,0O will be available for tho shipment of loaded ammunition as above outlined to the Ogden ordnance reserve depot while tho remainder will ibe required to ship sufficient ammum Itlon to the Savanna ordnance depot in Illinois to provide for a balanced 'rescrxo stock of the various caliber and types of ammunition at that strateBicallv located point. TO ABANDON 0 PORTS 'The final quantities to be shipped to tho ogden ordnance reserve depot will obviously depend in a very jrrcat measure on the fundR which will remain re-main available for this purpose after it shall have definitely been ascertained ascer-tained that complete cacuatlon of the nine temporary ordnance establishments establish-ments can be accomplished In any eent it Is the policy of the ordnance department to utilize available funds to the utmost adantage and provide for the shipment of the maximum quantity of loaded ammunition possible pos-sible to the Ogden reaerve depot " |