UNITED STATES NAVY
FORCE OF 1138 SUITS RECOMMENDED. (Rec. January 20, 0.10 a.m.) Washinpton, January 10. Admiral Kocntz, chief of the naval operations, has recommended to tho Naval Committee of the llouso of Representatives a. naval forco of G3S ships. He suggested tho reorganisation of the existing naval forces, retaining seventeen dreadnoughts, thirteen prc-dread-noughts, eight armoured cruisers, eighteen cruisers, fourteen gunboats, 303 destroyers, Ml submarines, cloven destroyers' tenders, 55 submarine chasers, and thirty-six minesweepers. Ho pointed out that it would require a person nol of 91,000 to keep tho foregoing force ready for sea on the basis of a 05 per cent; complement. It,is estimated that the naval appropriations for 1021 will be 575,000,000 dollars, and thoso for 1920 013,000,000 dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 98, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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123UNITED STATES NAVY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 98, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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