LIMITING NAVIES

Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7

LIMITING NAVIES

AMERICAN ESTIMATES

LOWEST SINCE WORLD WAR

NO NEED FOR APPREHENSION.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CADLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 15th March. Because all the nations party to the Naval Limitations Treaty are scrupulously observing their obligations. Representative French, of the Naval Committee, has introduced a measure carrying the smallest annual appropriation for" the Navy since the world war. " It authorises 294.000.000 dollars, compared,with 393.000,000 which President CoolicWs Budget asked for. and 330,000,000 which Congress appropriated last yoar. Representative French further "stressed the desirability of reaching a speedy and progressive reduction of Naval appropriations, reaching the levels previous to the United States' entry into the Avar, notably in 1916 whim" 157.000,000 was appropriated. Representative Byrnes, minority member of the Naval Committee, informed the House that he will offer his amendment to the Appropriations Bill requesting President Coolidge to call a conference for a further limitation of naval armaments. He said that the Washington Conference, in so far as naval armament was concerned, was merely changing the form ot naval competition without eliminating it. Representative French asserted, however, regarding the construction of types of vessels not limited by the "Washington Treaty, that there had been no feverish activity.on the part of any nation which would justify the United States feeling apprehension.