The Department. at great labor and considerable expense. ha steadily improved this system. until at the present time it turns out apprentices of excellent quality." The following official communication givesthe factsas to the number of aliens now enlisted in the naval service. It shows that outside of apprenticed boys only 1.938 Americanborn men are servingin a total force of 7.946 and. counting the boys. there are 3.668 Americanborn as against 4.278 foreignborn. We do not claim that all the foreignborn are not citizens. but. asno inquiries are made or legal tests demanded. we have no means of knowing how many among the 4.278 foreignborn sailors are American citizens by naturalization in due form of law:
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