UNITED STATES NAVY
♦ SHIPS MANNED BY INEXPERIENCED BOYS. (Rec. April 11, 11.5 p.m.) Washington, April 9. Rear-Admiral Thomas.Washington, before the Senate Investigation Committee, said that desertions from the Navy had been so numerous that in 1920 the United States ships wero manned by inexperienced boys. Admiral Frank Fletcher said that in 1912 the United States worked out plans for the eventuality of war with a Central European. Power, consequently the United States was not, as Admiral Sims alleged utterly unprepared when she entered the war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 5
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