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London, Feb. 22.
The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Duke of Kent to-day visited the British Industries Fair; which opened yesterday, a: Olympia. A large crowd outside cheered Their m the west coast of the United Aleutian Islands, and American clearly indicating that American Samoa which would be the first that they had approached so close to the The announcement indicated the exercises, the largest in American peace-time history, would resemble Problem 16 in which a Navy scouting force from Puget Sound swiftly thrust at the Aleutians and then raced southward to the vicinity of Midway where other units would be met.
Capt. W. G. Clu Bose, Bureau of Construction and Repair official, meanwhile told the House of Representatives Navy Affairs Committee conducting hearings on the Vinson Naval Expansion Bill that a reasonable programme for the construction of an expanded Navy would require from eight to ten years.
He said a 50000-ton battleship could easily pass through the Panama Canal and estimated that any battleship up to 60,000-tons could do likewise.
Capt Clu Bose recommended that private shipbuilders be permitted to bid on impending naval construction.
War Talk Toned Down Angered by accusations by pacifist groups that the Navy is deliber y "ballyhooing" the President's big Vy programme by creating scares, high Navy Department officials to-day ordered a "lean backwards" policy for Navy officers in an attempt to balance Navy utterances favouring enlargement of the Nav The new policy embraces a "gentlemen's understanding" among Navy officers and includes the following agreement:
1. No radio broadcasts which might be interpreted as propaganda in favour of a large Navy.
General discontinuation of loose regarding the international tua-ion and the condition of the tes Navy Rigid observance of regulations governing the Navy's public relations, Leading Navy Department officials, including Mr. Claude Swanson, Secretary of Navy, and Admiral W. D. Leahy, Chief of Navy Operations, were reported to have jointly agreed on the new rezulations.—United Press
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