THE AMERICAN NAVY
FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME. IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNTRY
(Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 25. Rear-admiral M‘Vey, budget officer ol the Navy Department, informed the House Naval Affairs Committee that the fiveyear building programme was just as important to the country as farm relief, flood control, or any other problem 'involving large sums of money. He said that the United States had a large seaborne commerce which must be adequately protected as if it was endangered it was certain to disturb internal conditions, and might extend to a panic. He pointed out that the Navy Department would have presented a building programme to Congress irrespective of the outcome of the Geneva Conference. On being questioned, he was unable to explain why the navy now thought >t needed 43 cruisers, whereas in 1925 it was represented that anywhere from 2 to 30 ships of this type were all that the navy required.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9
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154THE AMERICAN NAVY Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9
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