NAVAL ARMAMENTS.
UNITED STATES TO ABANDON BIG PROGRAMME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyr'iht. . Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. New York,.May 27. The New York Times' Washington cor* respondent states that Mr. Daniels has recommended to Congress that the threeyear naval programme be abandoned. Mr. Daniels said that since the United States had initiated the League of Nations it thould show faith in the covenant by stopping naval construction until the League met and decided upon the future armament of the nations.
Other countries, includihg fetigland, had practically abandoned all their naval construction since the armistice.
Mr. Daniels said, however, that the United States' 1010 programme, which still called for the construction of ton capital shlpc, should be completed, "and asked for an appropriation of forty-five million dollars for the development pf the naval air service.—Aus,-N.JS. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1919, Page 4
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