NAVAL POLICY.
HUGE NAVIES UNNECESSARY. ADMIRAL SIMS’ VIEW. DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.*—Copyright Received Feb. 6, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 5. Admiral Sims, giving evidence before the House Navy Committee, said that since the menace of German militarism was gone the necessity for maintaining huge navies no longer existed. The navies of the world could well be cut in one half. There was no longer a necessity for the British fleet of its present size, because that nation entered into a competitive building programme with Germany. Admiral Sims, however, urged the continuance of the United States’ 1916 building programme The committee reported unfavorably on Senator Borah’s resolution providing for six months’ suspension of naval building. The chairman (Mr. Butler) informed the House that Mr. W. G. Harding (the new President) will call a disarmament conference.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1921, Page 5
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137NAVAL POLICY. Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1921, Page 5
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