AMERICA'S HESITANCY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1920, Page 5

AMERICA'S HESITANCY.

PROLONGATION OF THE WAR } ADMIBAL SIMS ATTACKS NAYT By Telegraph Washington, March 10. ■'; Admiral Sims, iji giving evidence t* fore the Senate Naval Inventiflrtiffi Committee, said that the failure of th Navy Department to act quickly upoi his recommendations to place the" entir naval resources of the United State* a the disposal of the Allies within si months after America entered the cog diet, had prolonged the war by a least four montliß. : , He declares that he was «orelr en bnrrasse.i by the lack nf confidence an fo-operation of the Navy DepaTtmwi during the most trying days of the Wl end had repeatedly asked to be n lieved of his command if he had lpj the Navy Department's confidence ', Admiral Sims further -stated that til United States Vent the main fleet,i home waters, partly through a invasion, and partlv because thev wW od to possess the fleet intnet after t] tvar ended. Simultaneously the NaT Department had kent assuring the A lies of their intention to cn-onerate ! European wnters to the fullest exten

Admiral Sims -'"tea that Brlt*l asked in August. 1017. for a liquadrri pf American conWiumin" warships. M the Nnvv Dew<r*rpi>Tit ,i;,l p „f-, gell j d rhin* for several months. The depart ment's nolicv oliviouslv was its ow ~-fntv first nurf <VI of the Allien neJ When the squadron was .wnt it *va* nj cnns"T">"tlv beinp \ nmnll vnlue as a fighting unit.—Aim N.Z. Cable Assn. 1