THE AMERICAN NAVY
REASONABLE OR ADEQUATE? - NEW BUILDING PROGRAMME. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 17. (Received Jan. 18, at 5.5 p.m.) Admiral ' Hughes, chief of the naval operations, told the House Naval Committee to-day that a 25 per cent, increase was necessary in the administration’s new construction programme to provide the United States with an adequate navy. He defined a reasonable navy as a fleet with a fair chance -of doing something, and an adequate navy as one which had a sure chance of doing something. Asked if it was the navy’s thought to have a fleet equal to Britain’s, he declared that the navy did not wish a competitive building programme, but that thgught was underlying tbe idea. —A. and N%. Cable. NO CHANGE IN POLICY. A NAVY SECOND %) NONE. NEW YORK, January 18. (Received Jan. 18, at 10 p.m.) Admiral Hughes, in his testimony before the House Naval Affairs Committee at Washington, said that in 1916 it was the policy of the United States to have a navy second to none, and he did not know that there had been any change in this policy.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20310, 19 January 1928, Page 9
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