AMERICAN NAVY.
EXTENSIVE BUILDING PROGRAMME ADVOCATED. (By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received -Last Night, 9.15 o'clock. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Mr Secretary Daniel's annual report to President Wilson advocates another throe years of naval building, beginning in 1024;, and involvng the construction of eighty-eight vessels if tho United States does not enter tho League, or a similar world organisation. He states that the present Navy would be adequate if the United States does join a body for the prevention of war. The report characterises Hawaii as the cross-roads and key to the Pacific, and recommends the creation there ofc a fleet operating from a base capable of accommodating the entire American Navy with all its auxiliaries.
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Wairarapa Age, 14 December 1920, Page 5
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