WAR DECORATIONS
OFFERED TO AMERICAN ADMIRALS. (Rcc. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) ■Washington, February 7. The Secretary to tho Navy, Mr. J. Daniels, giving evidence before the SenAte Investigation Committee, said that after Congress had passed a law permitting foreign decorations for American subjects, President Wilson directed tha State Department to notify tho European Governments that the Uuitod States did not wish any such decoration* to bo conferred. In the meantime Admirals Rodman, Strauss, and Sims hail accepted decorations. Admirals Rodman and Strauss desired to refuse, but accepted lest their refusal should offend Britain. Admiral Sims held that the decoration would have a valuable effect oil moral and fighting efficiency.
Mr. Daniels further alleged that Admiral Sims told Congressional representatives at Paris' during the war that General Pershing had failed to breaV the German Hues, and that the American Navy played a small part compared with the British. Mr. Daniels accord' ingly refused Admiral Sims tho decora" tions because he had become a British propagandist.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6su.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 115, 9 February 1920, Page 5
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