THE AMERICAN NAVY.
CRITICISM BY ADMIRAL SIMS, By Telegraph.—Press issa.—Copyrilßt. Washington, March 10Admiral Sims, in his further evidence, stated that the failure of the Navy Department to use its forces properly resulted in the unnecessary loss of 2,500,000 tons of Allied shipping By submarine attack. If this tonnage had not been lost the' United States would have been able to send a milliort; men to France at the beginning of 1918.'";. Admiral Sims stated that it was 'impossible at first to induce the Navy Department to adopt the British' and French convoy system. The department proposed to adopt plans of its own manufacture, which the Allies had previously tried and abandoned as worthless. It was not until Lord Jellicoe wrote expressing the gravest apprehensions at the failure of the United States to participate that the department adoped the British svstem.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1920, Page 5
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