NAVAL POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1921, Page 5

NAVAL POLICY.

DISARMAMENT PROBLEM. A CONFERENCE PROPOSED, " ./ THREE.LEADING POWERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, March 2. The Senate unanimously voted to attach as an amendment to the Naval Appropriations Bill a section calling on the President to call a conference of the United States, Japan, and Britain to consider naval disarmament. LESSONS OF THE WAR. NEW SHIPS BUILDING. AMERICA MOST ACTIVE Received March 3, 7.30 p.m. London, March 2 Sir James Craig, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that by 1924 Britain would have one ship, the United States eighteen, and Japan eight embodying lessons learned by the war, while by 1925 the numbers would be 1, IS and 13 respectively. He could not say what the relative strength of the three navies would be in 1924-5. —-Aus. and N.Z, Cable Assn. AMERICAN NAVAL BILL. Washington, March 1. In the final effort to obtain a vote upon the half billion dollars Naval Bill, recommended by the Naval Affairs Committee, the Senate took up a continuous session. Senator Lodge asked for the prompt passage of the Bill, stating that the United States intended to maintain a strong policy in the Pacific, and the army and the navy must not be weakened. Senator Lodge made it plain that he was not predicting anything so serious as war, but was only asking for a navy adequate to meet the needs of the United States. —Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.