Washington, March 9.
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Edwin Denby, addressing the annual dinner of the Navy League, advocated the maintenance of a navy prepared to fight, and as large as any other. Such a navy. he said, would not be directed against any Power, and would not mean that the country was in the armament race, but might be put in the same class as fre insurance on homes.
Mr. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, supporting Mr. Denby, said that he hoped the navy would be constantly ready for service.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, declared that the aa ieee must be prepared for the next war.
Tuascradd, the French Ambassador at Washington, said that France was greatly interested in disarmament, but was so busy regarding her devastated lands that she had no time to consider thé~ problem.—U. 8. Navy Radio through Reuter.
New Yorx, March 6.—The long standing controversy between the State Department and the Western Union Cable Company over the laying of the Barbados-Miami cable reached a climax to-day when an American submarine chaser fired on the cable ship which was engaged in connecting up the cable with the shore station. The men on the cable ship stopped and were promptly arrested.—Reuter. el hibited without permission.
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