OUTLAWING SUBMARINES
' U.s. CONGRESS PROPOSALS. [By Electric Cable-Copyright.! [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! WASHINGTON, March 6. The House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee went on record against the proposals to outlaw submarines. The committee voted six to live against a favourable report to the House on Senator Frothingham’s resolution designed to prohibit the general use of submarines. Mr. Kellogg, in a letter to the committee had advocated that a proviso that other nations also outlaw submarines bo added to the resolution. Mr. Porter, chairman of the Foreign -Affairs Committee, in opposing the resolution on the ground that the submarine is regarded as an essential defence to small nations, said that he felt that the resolution was an “empty gesture.” Mr. Porter added: “We have no more right to ash Prance and Italy to abolish their only means of defence on sea than they have to ask us to abandon our only defence —the navy. “In ashing them to abolish the submarine we arc strengthening our defences by weakening theirs.” Mr. Hull, a member of the House of Representatives, stated: “If the submarine is horrible wo should find means of setting disputes without war. * ’
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6552, 8 March 1928, Page 7
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193OUTLAWING SUBMARINES Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6552, 8 March 1928, Page 7
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