SHORTAGE OF MEN

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5

SHORTAGE OF MEN

WAR WOULD FIND AMERICA IN DEPLORABLE CONDITION. .

RETIRED ADMIRAL’S OUTSPOKEN VIEW.

U.S. NAVY NOT SUPERIOR TO JAPAN.

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(Received June 4, 9.10 p.m.) ' NEW YORK, June 3.

Admiral Bradley Fiske, retired, made public a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Mr Wilbur, in which he claimed that the comparative strength of the American and Japanese fleets was gravely misunderstood by the public. He would not suggest that war is possible, but the Japanese and the Americans have taken irreconcilable attitudes and the Japanese have virtually broken diplomatic relations. Such attitudes have usually preceded war. Though, the American people imagine as the result of the naval treaty the United States_ fleet is superior to the Japanese ratio by fivo to three*, this is the reverse of the truth. If the American navy is superior, her capital ships are far from being superior in that ratio, and her actual personnel is far inferior. If Japan should gp to the extreme, ’taking the Philippine islands and thus force the United States into .war. we should find ourselves in a deplorable condition, because of the lack of trained men and also other requisites.—Reuter.

MEETING AT TOKIO. ' COUNTRY WILL NOT ABIDE PERMANENTLY BY DECISION. TOKIO. June 3. All the Tokio- and Osaka newspapers wore represented 1 at a meeting at Tokio to-night on the subject of. American exclusion law. A. resolution was passed, declaring a grim determination not to abide permanently by Congress’ rash discriminatory decision.—Reuter.