EIGHTS OF MEN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 7

EIGHTS OF MEN

WORLD PROTECTION WHAT AMERICA SEEKS. (United Press Association —Copyright) (9 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 16. Colonel Knox, Secretary for the Navy, addressing a graduating class at the Naval College to-day, said: “We intend to maintain the right of ever improving the lot of the common man, even though we waste our substance in wars for defending its maintenance. “Even when Germany is defeated ; there may be another Hitler twenty (years hence if the world again relinIquishes its policing power. The war of j 1914-18 was not a war to end war, land it is foolish to suppose that this one is any different, j “It is the responsibility of all of us Ito sec that in future the navy is ; never allowed to decline.” | GREATER NAVAL STRENGTH. | The Navy has announced a six | weeks’ drive to recruit 35,000 men who are needed for new warships which are (being completed ahead of schedule, it has raised the age limit for reservists to 50. The total navy personnel is f 227,000. In an interview, Colonel Knox was' asked whether selective service men j ! would be used for expanding the, 1 navy’s man-power and he replied: We j j cannot make sailors in a single year, (but if an emergency need arises we | will use them. i Asked if he would ensure the de-j | livery of materials to Britain, Col-j i onel Knox’s answer wa6 a definite! j “Yes.” Asked what the method J of insurance would be. the Secretary j of the Navy replied: Use your head | In the last war there was only onel menace, the submarine. This time ■ there are three—the submarine, the surface raider and the aeroplane. MORE STRIKE TROUBLE, i < At Flint a strike occurred in four I (General Motors plants this morning. I ;The union president (Mr Thomas Flow) will address a mass meeting and order 34,000 men to return to work. A Detroit message says General ( Motors announced that a strike has I closed the Grey Iron foundry at Saginaw, which is employing 4800 men. NEW U.S. BATTLESHIPS. PHILADELPHIA. May 15. The 35,000-ton U.S battleship Wash ington was commissioned to-day, six months ahead of schedule. This raises the battleship strength to 17. The Washington lias nine 16-iiieli guns. a speed of 30 knots, and a range of 5000 miles. She cost 70,000,000 dollars.

Thc_ North Carolina, a sister-ship to the Washington, was commissioned on April 9.