AMERICAN NAVY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 9

AMERICAN NAVY

» — PROTEST AGAINST BUILDING PROGRAMME “GRAVELY IMPERIAL RELATIONS” New York, February 9. At Atlantic City (New Jersey) admiral Magruder told a local club that the sum of money which it was proposed to spend for the expansion of the American naw should be used to develop the merchant marine “so that we would have something for the navy to protect.” At Washington representatives of a hundred thousand Quakers saw President Coolidge and protested against the proposed naval programme on the ground that it would gravely imperil American relations with other nations, particularly with Britain, and threaten the peace of the world. REDUCTION OF NAVIES IF LEAGUE COVENANT ADHERED TO (Rec. February 10, 8.20 p.m.) New York, February 9- _ Dr. Butler, president of the Columbia University, addressing the Pilgrim Society on its twenty-fifth anniversary, suggested that a reduction of naval armament would result if the United States adhered to Article Sixteen of the League Covenant imposing a blockade upon aggressor nations with the reservation that such blockade was not to be directed against nations of the Western Hemisphere. PROPOSED SUBMARINE BAN ALREADY ADVOCATED BY BRITAIN Rugby, February 9. The declaration of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. h. B. Kellogg, that his Government would be prepared to sign a treaty with all other Powers prohibiting the’use of submarines, was the subject of a question m the House of Commons to-day. _ Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Under-bec-retary for Foreign Affairs, replied: “The views of His Majesty s Government in favour of a general abolition of submarines were made known at the Washington Conference of 1921, and repeated bv the First Lord of the Admiralty at the Naval Conference at Geneva last summer. They are therefore familiar to the United States Government. It is, of course, an essential condition, as indicated in Mr. Kellogg s declaration, that the abolition must be universal.” . Asked whether the matter was going to be brought up at Geneva at the end of this month, Mr. Locker-Lampson said that he did not know, but the Brtish Government -was perfectly , re ‘ lc 'l to reaffirm the declaration which it had already made at Washington and Genevt.—British Official Wireless. ORDER FOR BRITISH SUBMARINES (Rec. February 10, 7.15 p.m.) London, February 9. The Vickers, Armstrong Company has received an order from the Admiralty for four submarines of the P class, and two others are to be built elsewhere.