NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
COMPETITION NOT LEAD BY BRITAIN
WARSHIPS LAID DOWN SINCE THE WAR
(Rec. January 19, 9.55 p.m.) London, January 18. In a speech at Ludlow, reviewing the Government’s record, Mr Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty, said it was riot generally known that other great maritime powers, namely, the United States, Japan, France, and Jtaly, had laid down since the war over three hundred warships, from cruisers downwards, while Britain’s contribution was only eleven. “So do not let anybody say," he added, “that we have led the competition in the new construction of warships.”—Reuter.
THE GENEVA CONFERENCE
UNITED STATES’ PARTICIPATION
APPROVED. (Rec. January 19, 19.40 p.m.) Washington. January 18. The United States’ participation in the preliminary Geneva Disarmament Conference was approved on Monday by* the House of Representatives, which authorised an appropriation of 50,000 dollars to defray the expenses. The* resolution will go to the Senate. —Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 98, 20 January 1926, Page 9
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