U.S. AND THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3390, 20 January 1920, Page 3

U.S. AND THE WAR.

INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS

ADMIRAL SIMS CAUSFS SIWVWS \ 4 v Ln’ _. _ ‘TION.

“JUST AS SOON HAVE FOUGHT

ENGLAND.”

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17

R€al'—.Admil'al Sims has caus(.,l a sensatioll by S'ta‘t€l%(‘lltS to tho s(_x'na_l-._\ oomnfittee which is invesfigating his (‘:O4-mplaint conce-rning the \vlloh--,3-;11e ‘€t\\‘£Ll'dS *-Of war deco:-atioll.< to 1m.3(._ serving officers. Admiml Sims has declared that when ordered to England in IVIuI-ch, 1917, prior to the entry of the united States into tho War, the Navy Dcpayfment instructed Inim “not to let the British pull the wool over your W 953: also: “We- would just as Soon figlgt-um British as the Oo.ntra.l Powers.” Admiral Sims added 'th'a.t: the Navy De. partm-ent did not co-operate with him when he was in London. It was roaL 1y ten months before the United States was of any aSS~‘iStallC»e to the .1-\.‘l}.ies or thought of acting on rho-ir rt.-comme;3_ d:ltion.s_ . The Na-V'.V ‘DoD?),'3tl‘n(.‘,ll{7 do.— ma.lld~3d to see all plans of opel'a‘ciol).'<_ against the enemy even when dehvys Wore dallgel'ou’s. The State Dc»p-mt-xneart informed Japan th.-1t An:‘erica.u troops were withdrawn from Si;-,er'..c; chiefly bwcauso of the ilnpOs:~'3bilif_\,' of sending revinforcem‘e-nts and. thr, 21211311tenzmlco of the status quo m-';gl~.'c il* volve the United tsatws in an undertaking of such an illdevfiife‘ ch;.-,ra.ntel~ as would prove inadvisable.