WITHOUT TIME LIMIT
MAY CAUSE CONFLICT.
STATES NAVAL PROGRAMME
CONGRESS CRITICISM.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT
Received 1 p.m. to-day. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13,
The House Naval Affairs Committee criticised President Coolidge’s failure to set a definite time limit for the- completion of the building programme. Members of the committee expressed the fear that such failure would, be liable to cause future conflict with the President.
The Assistant-Secretary of the Navy Department, Mr Robinson, appeared before the committee and explained the discrepancy between Mr Wilbur’s first estimate of 3,360,000,000 dollar programme and the corrected figure of 2,280,000,000 millions which Mr Wilbur later issued. Mr Robinson revealed that the Naval Board had first drafted the programme. 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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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 January 1928, Page 7
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