UNITED STATES NAVY.
PROGRAMME OF CONSTRUCTION. ADMIRAL TESTIFIES BEFORE COMMITTEE. Received January 19, 11.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Admiral Hughes, chief of naval operations, testified further before the House of Representatives Naval Committee. He sta.ted that he was trying to perform a patriotic duty when he based the naval programme submitted to Congress on that which Britain would have in 1936 when the proposed programme would bo completed. Members of the committee insisted that a large programme grew from the failure of the Geneva Conference. Representative McClintock declared that 90 per cent, of the people of the United States believed this. Admiral Hughes replied: lam one of the other ten per cent. Representative Vinson elicited the fact that the proposed programme would give the United States a larger tonnage than would have been permitted had the tonnage limitation proposed by the United States at Geneva been accepted. He asked if the “failure at the Geneva Conference necessarily means a programme of this magnir tude.” Admiral Hughes replied: Yes; if I accept your point or view.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 20 January 1928, Page 8
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