AMERICA'S NEW NAVY.
FAST CRUISERS SUGGESTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, July 16. Rear-Admiral Peary advocates the building of eight battle-cruisers capable of steaming 35 knots, with ICin guns, for use in the Atlantic. , PANAMA CANAL UNRELIABLE. TWO FLEETS NECESSARY. (Anstralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received 10.4 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. The "Daily Telegraph's' , Washington correspondent states that during the debate on the Navy Bill in the Senate Senator Lodge admitted that the naviga-
tion of the Panama Canal was so unreliable that the transference of the fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific was uncertain, and therefore a Pacific fleet must be built in addition to an Atlantic fleet.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 17 July 1916, Page 7
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