NAVAL CONFERENCE.
DESCRIBED AS COMPLETE FIASCO.
STATEMENT BY AMERICAN
Receded January 21, 10.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The Geneva Conference was described in Congress to-day by Mr Wood, of Indiana, as a complete iiasco, because the United States had no ships to scrap or construction work to stop. He asserted that failure came in spite of the fact that England might abandon further construction of additional cruisers, thus maintaining in a greater degree the ratio agreed upon five years ago. Mr Wood declared: “The time has arrived when we must embark upon a mercantile marine programme that will establish the United States in the eyes of the world.”—Australian Press Association and Sun.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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112NAVAL CONFERENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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