UNITED STATES NAVY
• ADMIRAL'MAYO .URGES EXPANSION. -'-v' 1 -' -- •' . ■ ' Washington,.' January 20. In a statement urging,naval expansion, Admiral Mayo declared:—"Tho Peace Conferenco is developing into! a sewing circle. It has no means of enforcement, and no international policy. to enforce,: Now is the time for the United States to 'build ■ the greatest:. Navy."—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cable Assn. . ■ - pAdmiral -Henry Thomas, Mayo was to the,rank of rear-admiral in . -1913 r- he became vice-admiral in 1915, when he took command of the battleship equadirons of' the United States Atlantic -Fleet. • In 1917 he was made a full admiral, and . took the command-in-chief of; the Atlantic Fleet.! -• ' . (Rec. February-1, 0.20 a.m.)', ' ' London, January 29. Mr. Franklin -D.- RoOsevelt, • Assistant Secretary..to.the, United States Navy, interviewed by . the "Daily- Tejegraph," stated that tie building programme was ' never intended to create a Navy superior to-', the British Oable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 7
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140UNITED STATES NAVY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 7
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