AMERICA HAMSTRUNG

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6795, 20 December 1922, Page 2

AMERICA HAMSTRUNG

NAVY BELOW REQUIREMENTS

DEFEAT IN TIME OF AVAR

ADMIRAL SIM’S VIEWS. United Service Telegrams. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December IS Admiial Sims in a spcelh said that, the United States of America had been hamstrung in the Pacific and nailed, down in the Atlantic. “Any nation can take *ho PI ihppines or Guam without tin- United States being aide to prevent it,” he declared, “because Cougie,-n voidd not appropriate the money to defend those inlands, and Japan was foiti'vrg her isaiids. It was consider - ed Unit the host way out was t 0 have botn sides quit.” “'I he deficiency in the American r.rval personnel is such that ships allowed under the 5-0-3 ratio arc only soventj per cent manned, and the navy i 8 dure to- ho defeated in time of war. The Un.etd States was also deficient xn smaller ships and last merchant marine ’’ He w aimed the people that the only way to get a fair deal in foreign trade was to have the necessary force to gain respect because the nations were not honest with each other.