AMERICAN NAVY
THE BUILDING PROGRAMME ! : _. MR. DANIELS RECOMMENDS ITS ABANDONMENT (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. June 8, 5.5 p.m.) • New York, May 27. The New York "Times" Washington correspondent states that Mr. J. Daniels (Secretary of the Navy) recommended to Congress that the three-year naval programme be abandoned. Mr. Daniels said that since the United States, initiated the League of Nations, it should showfaith Jn r the covenant by stopping navai construction until the League had met and decided the future armament of tho nations. Other countries, including England, had practically abandoned all naval construction-since . the 'armistice. Mr. Daniels said,' however, that the United States 1916. programme, which still called for the construction of.ten capital ships, should bo completed, and he asked for appropriations of 45,000,000 dollars (.£9,000,000) for development of the naval air service.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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136AMERICAN NAVY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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