AMERICAN DEFENCES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12015, 18 March 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN DEFENCES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Washington, March 16

The House Navv Committee approved a Bill appropriating 425,290 thousand dollars in 1931 for the Navy, and providing for a construction programme which will give the United States twenty-eight ships of the first line and nineteen of the second line by 1924. * The Bill appropriates 15,876,000 dollars for aviation. Congressman Smith urged tbe Navy Committee of the House to ignore Mr Daniels’ demand for a larger Navy, because the acceptance of the Treaty was delayed. The committee reduced Mr Daniels’ estimates by sixty millibns sterling, eliminating much proposed expenditure on the Pacific coast, and declined to authorise the construction of‘new fighting ships, and also declined to bnild giant seaplanes, two of which it was recently reported might attempt a trans-Pacific flight.