AMERICA'S NAVY
EFFECT OF WASHINGTON TREATY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 18. The Honso of Representatives' Sub-com-mittee- on Naval Appropriations has reported that the naval reductions will save the taxpayers at least 175,000,000 dollars next fiscal year, of which 9,000,000 will bo directly traceable to tiio conference agreements. The- Minister of tho Navy (Mr Denby) has ordered the completion of the battleslap West Virginia, ' which, the Naval Committee found to be 60 per cent, completed. This, with the Colorado, makes the two vessels allowed completion wider the Naval Limitation Treaty.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 4
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