GUN ELEVATION
VOTED OUT BY SENATE WOULD GIVE BATTLESHIP GUNS LONGER RANGE. GOOD MAJORITY* Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 20, 10.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 20. The Senate, by a vote of 45 to 22, refused to consider the question of the elevation of guns on 13 United States battleehipe, to give them a range equal to the ships of Britain. The vote was taken on the demand of Senator MclCelTar, on tjie proposed appropriation to meet the cost of elevation. Senator Hale (Chairman of the Navy Committee) told the Senate that _it would be unable tb take affirmative action while the protest of a foreign government was pending. NOJBONB 1 AMERICA STILL FREE. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received January 20, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 19. Mr C. M. Hughes (Secretary of State) has issued a formal statement asserting that the agreement reached* at the Paris Conference 1 of Allied Finance Ministers imposes no oblige-: tion, legally or morally, on the United States, and that this country remains as free from commitments in European matters as ever it wan.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 7
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183GUN ELEVATION New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 7
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