SHORN OF AUTHORITY
COOLIDGE AND NAVAL INCREASE CANNOT STOP BUILDING By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Friday. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says the Naval Allairs Committee of the .House of Representatives to-day rode roughshod over the recommendations made on behalf of Mr. Coolidge. by deciding, by 15 votes to 1, that the five-year naval building programme should be laid down in five years and completed in • eight years, and that the President should have no authority to suspend the work in the event of another naval . limitations conference. Mr. F. A. Britten, Republican, predicted that the five years’ programme would entail appropriations of £148.000,000, and that only one change would be made in the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. D. Wilbur, namely, that the number of submarines would be increased from • 32 to 35, but that the other items would ’ remain the same, that was. 25 cruisers, five aircraft-carriers and nine destroyer leaders. A message from Washington says th« Repulican members of the committee - have interpreted into action a positive expression of favour for “actual iron and steel ships” instead of a possible •paper fleet.” —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 253, 16 January 1928, Page 1
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