HONOURS REJECTED.
By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received December 29, 12.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Rear-Admiral flecker, a former American naval attache at Madrid, in a letter to Air .1 Daniels, refusing to accept a naval honour award,' pints out that; Spam was prevented, entering the war through the efforts of American naval officers at, .Madrid during the great German offensive in March; 1913.' Several other, -high naval officers have .written Mr Daniels refusing to accept decorations on tho same ground- as those taken by Admiral Sirmns. .Mr Daniels has ordered the icconvon:ion of the Navlil Board to reconsider honours and awards, ft is understood f.l#t President Wilson will be asked to pass them upon the Board's roeonimomla.tion. and a. Congressional committee will also investigate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 6
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