Show DESE DESERTERS FROM THE A ARMY have been greatly on the increase of late years washington nov 26 desertion Is on the increase in the army the annual report repert of the secretary shows that in the year ended june 30 there were desertions or 74 for every one hundred soldiers in the ne army in 1905 the rate ot of desertion was only 08 68 and for the three years previous to that time the rate of de bertlon was only 61 prom 1895 to 1904 1004 the average of desertion was only 45 per cent the rate of cf desertion deserts 0 n in 1906 was highest inthe field ard artillery li cr 02 92 per cent the cavalry was ts next with 78 71 per cent while eol soldiers diers showed a desertion average of 84 per cent while the soldiers showed an ave average ragi of only 23 per cent twenty five per cent of the tahe desertions were in the first three months of the deserters enlistment ninety per cent of the doner deserters were of native birth and as 89 per cent of the enlisted men in 1906 wa of native birth the rate of do desertion among natives and foreigners was about tho the same of the men who deserted in 1906 have been apprehended and surrendered to tho the military authorities the total number numb r of deserters convicted of desertion doser tion sentenced to confinement and dishonorably discharged was wag abe the of desertions say general ainsworth Ainswo kh doubtless will be decreased if the mill military authorities themselves I 1 cease to exercise the len loncy jency with which they the y halve heretofore treat treated 64 deserters de sorters who have been apprehended ended and returned to military control 1 |