AMERICAN ARMAMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17700, 8 February 1921, Page 5

AMERICAN ARMAMENTS.

MILITARY RETRENCHMENT. PRESIDENT'S VETO IGNORED. (Received 1.5 a-tn.) Router. WASHINGTON", Feb. 6. A resolution to authorise the cessation i of onlistments until the regular army is ! reduced to 175,000 was passed by the House of Representatives over the President's veto. It is expected that the resolution will pass the Senate. AIM OF NAVAL POLICY.. EQUALITY WITH BRITAIN. Times. LONDON. Feb. 6. The Washington correspondent of the Times, reviewing the armaments question, says:—"There is a strong public desire for a reduction of the expenditure •->n armaments, but the general expectation ; s that whatever arrangement is reached it will leave the United States on a par with Great Britain and much superior to Japan. The only doubtful point in translating thi3 into actuality is the ultimate relative strengths of the British and j United States navies. Feeling here at ! presfenfc is that the question of equality should at least be considered. If the i United States foregoes the opportunity to have as powerful a navy as Great Britain | it will be because she is assured of the impossibility of Great. Britain giving •Japan support, moral or physical, against her." AN AIRSHIP PROGRAMME. GERMAN WAR LESSON. Rsuter. NEW YORK. Feb. 6. ; General Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the j United States Army Air Service, told the | Naval Air Committee of the House of j Representatives that Germany during the j war had designed an airship capable of flying around the world. He also claimed that the Germans had passed New York with it flying at an altitude of 30,000 ft., well beyond the reach of aeroplanei attacks. The engines were electrically heated, and the crew were supplied with oxygen. General Mitchell added that the United States was designing airships to fly at an enormous altitude.