THE WAR ANNIVERSARY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 171, 9 April 1918, Page 5

THE WAR ANNIVERSARY

YEAR'S EFFORT REVIEWED. ; Now York, April 6. On the anniversary of America's en- j try into.the war, the Committee of 1 Public Information published a report ■ of America's accomplishments. The , total Government expense for the year was 12,067,278,679 dollars . (about i £2,413,000,000). ..The Army had been I increased from 95L , officers and 202,610 ! men to 123,801 officers and 1,528,92-1 ! men, and the Navy from 4792 officers \ and 77,946 men to 21,000 officers and 330,000 men. There are now four j times as many vessels in tbe naval service as there were a year ago. Over j twenty large companies are manufactur- ■ ing aeroplanes. The Emergency Moot | Corporation had requisitioned 425 steel ! vessels and contracted for 720 steel j vessels with a total dead-weight ton- j nage of 8,164,508. It had. contracted ! for 480 wooden vessels of. 1,715,000 ■ tons, and repaired and put into oper- ; ation 788,000 tons seized from . Ger- ' ■ many and Austria. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable | Assn. ; CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON; "! London, April 7. '. ■ The Lord Mayor gave a luncheon to i a distinguished company at the Man- '■ sion Houso to commemorate the entry ; of tlie United States into the war. Telegrams were read from the King ; and Mr. Lloyd George. The latter, in tho course of his telegram, said that ■ during.the next few weeks Amorica i would givo tbe Prussian military junta ; tho surprise of their livos.—Reuter.