TITE TIMES: MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1919
ERICA WAS
RESPONSES!! FO
SEA IE FIELD
Insisted on North Sea Bar
rage Against The
Germans.
HELPED TO LAY
AND REMOVE THEM
Admiral Strauss Command
ed Yankee Tars Who
Swept Them Up.
"Washing-ton, D. C. O-t. IS The
clearing of tho Xorth mine field
hai been necomytlishod. As America
inpe& o?i th! barrn.ero ii?ra-Inst the
Germ;ui3 and contribut " -1 to laying
it down, so she lins done her share
by way of finishinr the Job. Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels aelinowl
eujjed t-his terse military mosstse
from Ttear Admiral Joseph Strauss:
"FiLilshed weeyinpr North
S SPEH
'IRE THAT THEIR
INC8IE IN 1918
In 147 Cities Went Into
Debt At the Rate of $3.48
Per Capita.
Washington, D. C, Oct 13. In 147
of the 22 7 American cities of more
than 30,000 population the excess of
expenditures for governmental cots,
including interest and outlays for
permanent improvements, over rev
enues during the lift tl year 19 IS
amounted to $70,PJU,iyo, or $3.4$ per
capita. In the remaining SO cities
the excess of revenue over expendi
tures was $22,323,060, or 51.60 per
capita. Taking the entire 227 cities as
a group, tho excess of expenditures
over revenue? amounted to $48,600,-
vayt, or per capita. The net in- ; for all other cities of over
i.fuieuiieas ui unese cities averagca taken together, and Is:
bar-
m.gr "f American mines.''
Fnm the armistice until ea-rly
last spring the Navy Dop rtment laid
its il a r.s for gntherin-r up the mines
It had solved. Then the mine swip
ing f;eet of four thousand officers
i.nd sea-men steamed into Kirk '.vail,
Thence it began the v.-ork of sweep
fur 70.000 American-laid mines.
