AMERICA AND THE WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12011, 13 March 1920, Page 5

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

CRIMINAL DELAY. United Press Association—By Elec - trio Telegraph—Copyright. Received March 13, 9 a.m. Washington, March 10 Admiral Sims, in further testimony, stated that the failure of the Navy Department to use the forces properly resulted in the unnecessary loss of 2,500,000 tons of allied shipping by submarine attacks, and if this tonnage bad not been lost the United States would have been able to send a million men to France at the beginning of 1918. Received March 13, 10 a m. Washington, March 12

Admiral Sims stated that it was impossible at first _to induce the Navy Department to adopt the British and French convoy system. The Department proposed to adopt plans of its own manufacture which the Allies had previously tried and abandoned as worthless. *lt was not until Lord Jellieoe wrote expressing the gravest apprehension at the failure of the United States to participate that the Department adopted the Britian system.