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NAVY TO HAVE 1,291 SHIPS. Statement Prepared by Hear Admiral Griffin.?10 Battleships. Washington, Dec. 7.?The American navy will number a total of 1,291 vessels, including forty battleships and 329 destroyers on July 1, 1920, according to a statement prepared by Rear Admiral Griffin, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, for the House naval committee. The statement shows that when "war was declared there were 364 ships in the navy, while on November , 1, ten days before hostilities ceased, there were 777, exclusive of private - * _ - i _ ly owned yacnts ana otner vessels taken over for patrol service. The greatest increase was 300 in sub* marine chasers. The increase in destroyers was forty-one to a total of ninety-two, and that of submarines from forty-four to seventy-nine. Only two eagle boats had been completed on November 1. Ninetyeight others were contracted for, but Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction and repair, has informed th? committee, it became known, that the Navy Department has given orders that only sixtv of the vessels be completed. Keels for eighty of the eagles have . , not been laid, but material for most of them has been fabricated. Only two battleships were added to the fleet during the war, and only one will be added between this time and July 1, 1920, Admiral Griffin - said. Six others, however, actually are under construction, and two, the . Tennessee and California, 'are apjfr proximately now completed. Work on three others is yet to be started.Admiral Taylor informed the committee that contracts are yet to be placed for twenty-nine ships whifch have been authorized. They include two battleships, twelve destroyers, ten submarines, two destroyer tenders, a repair ship, a transport and a submarine, tender. Work has not yet started on any |/ t of the five battle cruisers, authorized *?{ <'; in 1916, the laying down of these vessels and other-major craft having been deferred . because of the dej* *. mands for destroyers during tbe war. ^Ninety-five destroyers authorA iitIti ar VVi r\ n-O *? nrttP Q rp m nT*P U?VU UU1 MiQ; uxy T* (*1 uvu V v than half completed. DUTCH WILL HELD. But Holland Prefers to Intern ExKaiser for Life, . " ' ! v London. Dec. 7.^-If the Allies inv. slst upon the delivery of the former German Emperor and Crown Prince te an international court of justice Holland will yield, but will first urge that the Allies content themselves with an undertaking by Holland to intern them for life in one of the Dutch colonies, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to The Express. Holland, it is understood, will suggest that Herr Hohenzollern and his son be placed on an island in either the East or Dutch West Indies, where he will be guarded by a T Dutch fleet. \ ' < It is also anticipated that Holland will be asked for compensation for permitting a violation of her neutrality by allowing German troops to pass through the province of Limburg on their retreat from Belgium and receiving German ships from Antwerp. This compensation - may possibly be the cession of cer-tain territory along the Belgian frontier owned by Holland since 1839. Perhaps the southern part of Dutch V Limburg will be demanded. The population of this region Ms principally Belgian. mm ioi ? Tax Commissioner Killed. gwy ^ Atlanta, Dec. 7.?Judge John C. Hart, State tax commissioner and for a number of ye^rs attorney general -of Georgia, accidentally shot 9 and killed himself this afternoon while hunting near Greensboro. He* was crossing a stream with a shotgun on his arm when in some way lie slipped and fell. The gun was discharged and the load of shot entered the judge's neck, severing the jugular vein. Death was almost instantaneous. * Judge Hart, who was about 70 years old, is survived by his wife and two daughters and three sons. Two of his sons are with the American forces in France. McAdoo Loses Money. Washington, Dec. 7.?Secretary McAdoo, who quit the cabinet because his salary was insufficient, now faces the predicament of worming two weeks for the government for nothing. He will retire as secretary of the treasury, December 16, and his pay at the rate of $12,000 a year will stop. Until January 1, however, he will continue as director general of railroads, and for this job he receives not a cent, although his regional directors receive $40,000 a year. 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