UNITED STATES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 15 May 1920, Page 5

UNITED STATES

NAVAL CONTROVEK6Y

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT WASHINGTON, May 12. Mr J. Daniels, Secretary for the Navy, in. his evidence (before the Senate Committee, read letters written by Admiral Sims to Mr Page, American Ambassador in London. He pointed out that President Wilson evidently regarded Admiral Sims as owned body and soul by the British. Admiralty and seriously considered Ms replacement by another officer more amenable to the American Naval Department.

Answering President Wilson's charges to the effect that the British were too cautious, Admiral Sims outlined a combined land and sea attack on the Belgian coast, including the Zeebrugge landing then pending. This, in Ad miral Sims' opinion, was sufficiently audacious to please even President Wilson

Admiral Sims, according to Mr Daniels, disapproved of the American plans for dealing with submarines as» impracticable. They had already been tested by Britain and found unworK able.

.Mr Daniels asserted that-* Admirat Sims was so hypnotised; by the Admiralty that he tried t® lure the President into feeling that regarding future developments the United States could always rely on the British Navy.