TRUE COLOURS.
AMERICA SHOWN UP
SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS
AN OUTSPOKEN ADMIRAL
"JUST AS SOON FIGHT BRITISH."
(Received 8.0 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17
Rear-Admiral Sims caused a sensation by statements to the Senate Committe which is investigating his ; complaint concerning wholesale awards of war decorations to undeserving officers. Admiral Sims declares that when he was ordered to England in March, 1917, prior to the entry of the United States into the war, the Navy Department instructed him "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes," also "we would just as soon fight the British as the Central Powers." Admiral Sims added that the Navy Department did not co-operate with him when he was in London. It was I nearly ten months before the United States was of any assistance to the Allies or thought of acting on their recommendations. The Navy Department demanded to see all plans of operations against the enemy, even when delays were dangerous.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 19 January 1920, Page 5
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