ARMAMENT PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1921, Page 5

ARMAMENT PROBLEM.

America favors reduction. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, Feb. 6. The Washington correspondent of The Times, reviewing the armaments question, says there is a strong public desire for a reduction of armament expenditure, but a general expectation that whatever arrangement is reached will leave the United States on a parity with Britain and much superior to Japan. The only doubtful point in the translation of this into actuality is the ultimate relative strengths of the British and American navies. The feeling at present is that the question of equality should at least be considered. If the United States forgoes the opportunity to have as powerful a navy as Britain it will be because she is assured of the impossibility of Britain giving Japan support, moral and physical, against her.—Times. THE DANGER OF AIRSHIPS. Washington, Feb. 6. The resolution stopping enlistments until the regular armv is reduced to 175.000 was passed by the House of Representatives over the President’s veto, and is expected to pass the Senate. General Mitchell told the Naval Air Committee that Germany during the war designed an airship capable of flying around the world. He also claimed that the Germans could have passed New York with it flying at an attitude of 30,000 feet, well above airplane attack. The engines were electrically heated and the crew supplied with oxygen. General Mitchell added that the United States was designing airships to fly at an enormous altitude.-—Times.