Washington, Apr. 23, The Appropriations Commitiee of the House of dtepresentatives to-day decided to reduce by $15,000,000 the Administration's budget estimate of '$29,300,000 for the construction of new naval vessels. In taking this action, the committee considered that the Administration may wish to delay the construction of the proposed 24 new ships to replace cbeolete vessels uni the forthcoming Naval Con: ference.
Such a course, it was stated, should be interpreted as "an expression of Jour faith and confidence that the principle of limitation wil! survive, fand anew and better accord result from the forthcoming naval con ference."
Testifying before the Appropriations Committee" to-day, Admiral William HM. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, declared that, in the opinion of senior American naval officials, the United States Navy in present stale was Incapable of carrying on an aggressive war with another world power, but was capable {repelling an attack on American shores. It was also the belief of the American high command, he added, that when the Treaty strength towards which the United States Navy 'An assertion that' King' Gk rge was building was reached, it would clearly warned Germany' in Geeet Ban woata|eyaspowertl wed- as power any of afloat any of thw oon, 0 to the aid of France in the event! of war with Germany, is made in the "Revue des Deux Mendes" by an eminent retired French diplomat, M. Maurice Paleologue, who was head of the political department of the Foreign Ministry before the war.
'M. Paleologue says that the King told' M. Paul Cambon, in the course fof on' audience at' Windsor on.
Washington, Apr 24.
The enlistment of 31,700 men beween the ages of eighteen and 35 for the army begins on July 1, according to the War Department to-day. This will be the first move to increase the army to 165,000, the length authorized by Congress—Reuter.
February 1, 1013, that, during the recent visit' of the Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, the subject was discussed,
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