U.S. NAVAL PLAN PASSED
TOTAL OF £73,838,051 NOT FOR NEW PROGRAMME By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. The Naval Appropriation Bill was passed by the House of Representatives to-day. Various minor amendments dealing with dirigibles, etc., were defeated. The measure provides for an expenditure of £73,838,051. This sum includes funds for continuing the construction of the 10 vessels now being built, the modernising of two others, including the elevation of their guns, the beginning of the work on two new dirigibles, the building of two more submarine salvage vessels and additional airplanes and the maintenance of marine corps at home and in Nicaragua and China.—A. and N.Z.
The measure does not provide funds for the new programme. -Of the total vote £6,263,000 is for aviation, an increase of more than 50 per cent, compared with the 1927 appropriation. It was stated that the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Curtis Wilbur, and naval officers rejected a proposal made by the chairman of the sub-committee, Mr. B. L. French, to cut the expenditure by agreeing with Britain and Japan to put out of commission part of the three fleets. Mr. Wilbur contended that naval operations were needed in order to keep the crews of the ships in training.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 11
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