AMERICAN NAVY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19980, 23 December 1926, Page 11

AMERICAN NAVY

THE CRUISER. PROGRAMME. A TILT AT GREAT BRITAIN. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 21. (Received Dec. 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Arthur Brisbane, the well-known journalist, commenting on the appropriation of £20,000,000 for 10 cruisers says: “These are nice toys which would make amusing targets for foreign airmen. The money they cost would build enough airships to make this nation safe against foreign attack. Lord Balfour is still alive, and how do we know that the British will not send him to make us ‘junk’ these new cruisers when they are half-finished, as we ‘junked’ our magnificent half-finished battleships at Britain's request some time ago.”—Sydney Sun Cable. I

CONSTRUCTION NOT TO BE EXPEDITED.

WASHINGTON, December 21,

President Coolidge does not believe it necessary to commence immediately the construction of the 10 new light cruisers authorised by the Bill introduced in the House on Saturday.—A. and N.Z. Cable.