Life Belts For French Navy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 11, 1912:
All Warships Must Hereafter Carry Enough to Supply Each Man.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Aug. 10.— As a result of the Titanic disaster, M. Delcasse' the Minister of Marine, issued this week regulations to the effect that all naval vessels must in future carry as many life belts as men. This rule formerly applied to merchant ships only.
    In the navy torpedo boat destroyers were the only vessels to carry a sufficiency of belts, battleships and cruisers having only a small number in the lifeboats.
    Since the catastrophe of last April, however, the Minister of Marine has decided that this state of things must be promptly remedied.
    "Measures of safety," he says in a circular, " should be as complete on warships as on merchant vessels. It cannot be permitted that the State should impose on the latter precautions which it refuses to take on board its own transports."
    The circular further directs that the belts must not be kept, as hitherto, in bunkers, but in the most frequented parts of the ship.