U.S. Army.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 16

U.S. Army.

T ie official report issued at Washington on War Expenditures chows that the )mall military establishment of 4-SOO ofliiers and 77.500 men maintained by the United (States has cost in the thirteen years since the war with Spain £79.378,685, or more than double the expenditures on the Navy for the last twenty-eight years, these expenditures do not include pensions nor the cost of the Panama Canal construction under the Army's supervision. The result of the publication is likely to be a Traction in favour of the naval establishment, and legislative consent lor the building of two battleships this year, which the Democratic caucus decided recently to disallow. According to the above figures. the cost per soldier per annum during the pa-t thirteen years has been over £ -»50.