AMERICAN NAVAL SCANDAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 4

AMERICAN NAVAL SCANDAL.

[Br Electric telegraph —Copyright.] (Pc Press Association.) (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 13, at 9.2" a.m. WASHINGTON. March W. Admiral Sims, in further testimony." stated that the failure of the Navy Department to use its forces properly re : suited in the unnecessary loss ot 2,500.000 tons of Allied shipping by submarine attack. If this tonnage had not been lost the United States would have been able to send 1,000.000 men to France at the beginning of 1018. Reived March 13, at 9.15 a.m. / WASHINGTON, March 12. Admiral Simms stated that it was impossible at,first to induce the Navy Department to adopt the British and French tonvov system. The Department proposed to adopt a plan of its own manufacture which the Allies had previously tried and abandoned as worthless. Ft was not until Admiral Jellicoe wrote expressing the gravest apprehensions at the failure of the Inked States to participate that the Department adopted the British system.