UNITED STATES NAVY
4 CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME MR. DANIELS'S ESTIMATES REDUCED By Tcleßraph-PreEß Association-Copyright (Rec. March 17, 7.45 p.m.) Washington. March IG. The House of Representatives Navy Committee has approved a Bill appropriating 425,290,000 dollars in 1921 for the Navy and providing for a construction programme which will give the United States twenty-eiglit ships of the first line and nineteen of the second line by 1924. The Bill appropriates 15,876,000 dollars for aviation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable .Assn. (Rec. March 17, 7.15 p.m.) Washington, March IG. Mr. Addison T. Smith urged the Navy Committee of the House of Representatives to ignore Mr. J. Daniels's demand for a larger Nan- because acceptance of ttio Treaty had been delayed. The committee reduced Mr. Daniels's estimates by sixty millions sterling, eliminating much proposed expenditure on the Pacific Coast and declined to authorise the construction of new fighting ships. It also declined to build giant seaplanes, two of which it was recently reported might attempt a trans-Pacific flight — Renter. •, Mr. Daniels nut forward three naval proposals which are dependent on the Senate's action regarding the Treaty. He said that if the Senate rejected the ! Treaty the United States must have incomparably the greatest navy in the world, including an additional 10 Dreadnoughts, ships and battle-cruisers. If ; the Senate accented the Treaty only minor naval additions would be necessary. If the Senate did not accept the Treaty, the United States must build sixty-nine vessels, nt a cost of 195.000,000 dollars. Whether the League of Nations existed or not, the United States must have n navy equal to, if not bigsei than, ! that of any country in the world, Britain was encouraging her colonies tc build naval vessels. General Craven, Director of Naval Aviation, informed the House of Representatives that the Navv Department i- contemplated the construction of twe i giant seaplanes, the largest in the world, i and he nslced for an appropriation o ■ 036,000 dollars for this work. He alsi ■ recommended tho construction of foui i new N.C. 'planes, 150 seaplanes s and three small non-rigid dirigibles, ir > all costinc 2,700,000 dollars. Genera ' Craven said the giant seaplanes woulc ' have a. capacity of thirty tons and s - wing-spread of 140 feet. .
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 148, 18 March 1920, Page 7
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