MERCHANT MARINE
BRITAIN’S SUPERIORITY AMERICANS ADVISED TO STRENGTHEN FLEET. AN ADMIRAL’S VIEW, By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. August 20, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 19. At WiUiani6town, Massachusetts, Admiral Rogers, chairman of the United States General Naval Board Executive Committee, in a speech, said that the United States made all the material sacrifice® of strength at tho Washington Conference while the British fleet in the merchant marine remains •unapproachable. The naval combat strength exists chiefly, if not solely, to bade ocean commerce. Until the United States has its own merchant fleet without fear or reliance on foreign shipping the British position on the high seas will be unrivalled m peace or war.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11294, 21 August 1922, Page 5
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115MERCHANT MARINE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11294, 21 August 1922, Page 5
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