UNITED STATES' NAVY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14584, 5 February 1921, Page 5

UNITED STATES' NAVY

KEEP ON BUILDING. TO SECURE EQUALITY OF POWER. NEED FOR BETTER SHIPS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, February 3. The Navy General Board recently furnished a report to Mr Josephus Daniels, Secretary for the Navy, who transmitted it to the Naval Committee, as follows:—"We reiterate our belief in the battleship forming the principal unit of the licet. Without them the United Slates cannot hope to compete with existing navies. We urge that duality in power he continued as the policy of the United States. There is m- thought of instituting international competition in building programmes, and no other reasoncan reasonably tako exception to such a position. Our guid ing policy since 1903 was the eventual creation of a navy equal to the strongest in the world. We urge that there be no rest or limitation of armament that would modify the great programme of 1916. In the future we shall in all probability have to rely solely on our own state of preparedness. Britain's c-'ssalion of building is due to the great preponderance of her navy and the p!C:>ent economic situation of that Empire."