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THE UNITED STATES PROGRAMME NOT A COMPETITOR OF BRITAIN. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 12 Tiie Secretary for the Navy (Sir R. B. Wilbur) emphatically® denied . the charges that the naval programme was designed to compete with Britain. The chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee (Mr Butler) requested Mr Wilbur to return and tell just what a first-class Mr Butler, having criticised the Navy as too large, was shocked by Mr \\ übur’s statement that it was not a firstclass navy. Mr Wilbur stated: “We will allocate the expense of the programme at £33,(500,000 a year, and must build / l new ships in order to bring the Navy to the necessary strength.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 4
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