“COMPLETE FIASCO”
AMERICAN VIEW OF NAVY CONFERENCE “NO SHIPS TO SCRAP” Cable — Press Association. — Copyright. 9-5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Friday. The Geneva Conference was described in Congress to-day by Mr. W. R- Wood, Indiana, as a “complete “•sco,” because the United States had ho ships to scrap or construction work to stop. He asserted that failure came in sMte of the “fact that England might “•re abandoned further construction . additional cruisers, thus maintain‘®S in a greater degree the ratio •greed upon five years ago.” , He declared the time had arrived *hen we must embark upon a mercantile marine programme that will establish the United States in the eyes ot the world. ■' —A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 1
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113“COMPLETE FIASCO” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 1
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