Our country and its resources; . nother, and, fail-ing to understand the seriousness ofthe offense or being willing to takethe chance of punishment if detect- ed, absent themselves from the Navywithout permission and thus becomedeserters. Two thousand three hun-dred and twenty men thus desertedduring 1915, a decrease of severalhundred under 1914 and a stilllarger decrease from and 1912,the figures for which are respect-ively 8,1237 and Of the 1915deserters, 4S0 voluntarily returnedto service, and 41.! absentees wereapprehended and delivered. In 1!>07 a finger print identifica-t
Our country and its resources; . nother, and, fail-ing to understand the seriousness ofthe offense or being willing to takethe chance of punishment if detect- ed, absent themselves from the Navywithout permission and thus becomedeserters. Two thousand three hun-dred and twenty men thus desertedduring 1915, a decrease of severalhundred under 1914 and a stilllarger decrease from and 1912,the figures for which are respect-ively 8,1237 and Of the 1915deserters, 4S0 voluntarily returnedto service, and 41.! absentees wereapprehended and delivered. In 1!>07 a finger print identifica-tion system was installed in theidentification office which now con-tains the linger prints of 133,214men, including, of course, all thosewho have enlisted in the Navy sincethe establishment of this result of the finger print sys-tem is to prevent re-enlistmentunder assumed names of men whohave deserted from the Army andNavy or Marine Corps or who haveheen discharged for various reasonswhich would prevent them from re-. LAYING THE KEEL OF A EATTLESHIP IS AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
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