NAVAL AFFAIRS.
ELEVATION OF GUNS. rfY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGF' NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Speaking at Williamstown, lVlassachusetts, Rear-Admiral W. L. Rodgers (retired) said the British protest against the alteration of the elevantion of guns in the United States capital ships was without foundation. “We need only stand on our rights, " he said, “and England will scarcely continue to insist upon a point on’which our judgment i sjust as authontuiive as hers.”
Referring to reports that the Navy Department was proposing to argue the matter, Rear-Admiral Rodgers said:— “It is a. matter upon which no, argument can be satisfactory to England. She wants onr navy to"be inferior to hers.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 August 1924, Page 5
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108NAVAL AFFAIRS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 August 1924, Page 5
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