NAVAL HOLIDAY IDEA.
UNCLE SAM QUITE WILLING. Electric Telegraph—Pres* Association Copyright (Received this day at 11.40 a.m.) Washington, This Day. Mr Daniels, Secretary to the Navy, reporting on the naval estimates, welcomes the suggestion made by Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, for a naval holiday. He proposes that the United States should issue invitations to the Powers to hold a conference and discuss the reduction of armaments. Mr Daniels recommends the construction of two Dreadnoughts, eight destroyers and eight submarines for tho current year, and points out that the United States is now building 17 destroyers and 29 submarines, with the necessary supply ships.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4702, 2 December 1913, Page 5
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108NAVAL HOLIDAY IDEA. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4702, 2 December 1913, Page 5
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