UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN 1 WARSHIPS, ! PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEWS. DISTRIBUTION WOULD GIVE BRIT.-. AIN THE LION'S SHARE., ' Received Dec. 23, 12.50 a.m. New York, Dec. 21. Mr. Clinton Gilbert, the New York Evening Sun's Paris correspondent, cables that President Wilson favors the destruction of the surrendered German Navy, and that he will insist that the United States Navy will equal the greatest navy in the world, and this is authorised. The United States desires the sinking of the German Navy for two reasons—(l) it will be a great moral act; and (2) ; a division of the German fleet among the Allies, according to their naval losses, will give England the lion's share, thus j compelling the United States to build 16 more war vessels in order to carry out [•her contemplated programme for her fnavy equalling the greatest navy in the world.—Aus. and N.2. Cable Assoc.

PRO-GERMAN INQUIRY. BOLO PASHA'S ACTIVITpS. A SHIPBUILDING SCANDAL. QUESTION OP DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN WARSHIPS. ' Received Dec. 22, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Dec. 19. Alfred Becker, deputy-Attorney-General for New York, in giving evidence 'before the Senate pro-German Propaganda Committee, said that 8010 Pasha sought unsuccessfully to get the president of the Bethlehem Steel Company to purchase the Paris Journal, 8010 camouflaging his real sympathies towards Hearst. There was nothing to show that the Paris Journal had changed its loyalty towards France because of German financing, and it was apparent that the whole thing, so far as the newspaper was concerned, was a pure swindle. The Senate's investigation into the Home Island shipbuilding yards disclosed that only one ship .was turned, out, while fifty keels were laid at a cost of twelve millions sterling. Most of the work was done by subcontractors. Mr. Josephus Daniels (Naval Secretary) does not believe the report that the Allies agreed to sink German ships. Senator Lodge, in the Senate, introduced a resolution asking the State Department ,for information whether the American peace commissioners are advocating the destruction of German warships, and, if so, on what authority.— Aus. N.Z. Calbe Assoc.