AMERICA AND WAR
QUESTION OF PREPAREDNESS. SHIPS IN 1920 MANNED BY BOYS
(Received April 11, 11.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 9,
Rcar-Admiral Thomas Washington, before the Senate Investigation Committee, said that desertions from the Navy had been so numerous that in 1920 tho United States ship 3 were manned by inexperienced boys. Admiral Frank Fletcher said that in 1912 "tho United States worked out plans for tho eventuality of war with the Central European Powers. Consequently the United States was not, as Admiral Sims bad alleged, utterly unprepared when she entered tho war.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10561, 12 April 1920, Page 6
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