AMERICA'S EXPENDITURE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14481, 13 August 1917, Page 3

AMERICA'S EXPENDITURE.

OVER £5,000,000 A DAY

ARTILLERY FOR WEST FRONT

New York, July 28. Messages from Washington show, from the Estimates, that tiie various war departments expect to spend £1 - 960,000,000 during the financial year, this amount comprising the Department of War, £1,560,000,000; the Navy Department, £240,000,000; and the Shipping Board, £160,000,000. The Military Committee of the Senate lias recommended immediate legislation providing, for the drafting of aliens in. the "United States at an early date. The legislation proposed wilt make available nearly 1,000,000 additional 'drafted men.

1 .A proposed reorganisation of the National Defence Council will-include the formation of. a. War Industries Board of seven members, headed by Mr Frank Ascott, which will supervise actual expenditure; and a Purchasing Board of thro© members, with Mr .Hoover the .rood Controller.