NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
AMERICA'S m PROGRAMME NO DEFINITE TIME LIMIT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 13. (Received January 14, at 11.40 a.in.) The House Naval Affairs Committee criticised President Coolidgo’s failure to set a definite time limit for the completion of the building programme. The members of the committee expressed the fear that such a failure would be liable to cause future conflict with the President. In the meantime the Assistantsecretary to the Navy (Mr Robinson) appeared before the committee and explained the discrepancy between Mr Wilbur’s first estimate of 3,360,000,000 dollars programme and the corrected figure of 2,280,000,000 dollars which Sir Wilbur later issued. Mr Robinson revealed that the Navel General Board had first drafted a programme calling for the first figure. This programme included battleships and additional destroyers, but was discarded because it was seen to be unnecessary to start battleship and destroyer replacements at the present time.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 6
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149NAVAL CONSTRUCTION Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 6
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