AMERICAN NAVAL DESERTERS.
That sailors aro deserting from the United States navy “wholesale,” and officers are resigning daily, was disclosed by Rear-Admiral Washington, chief of the bureau of navigation, in testimony given before the Senate Committee investigating the part played by the navy in the war. i Admiral Washington t* declared that unless the pay of both Officers and men was raised the United States navy could not be saved frogi disaster. ' He said the navy has been “going down hill’ rapidly since July, 1919, and told the committee that desertions during the last half of 1919 totalled 4666 men, including 1600 petty officers. If present conditions were to continue, he asserted, the navy would not only bo under-manned by 1921, but 90 per cent, of those on the rolls would be inexperienced boys. The naval medical corps is in the worst condition in histqry, the admiral declared, 200 medical r officers having resigned,sjnce,.t)ie, J .freU-ftlfi >‘j*Vfaj vfili
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 10
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158AMERICAN NAVAL DESERTERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 10
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