Washington, May 2.
Admiral Willian V.
Pratt, Chief of Naval Ope: id to-day that the Navy iment's recent gation, in sending the U: S. Scouting Fleet into the Pacific was moraly part of a desire to keep the fleet together during manoeuvres.
'The Far East situation was not' considered in connection with this activity, he emphasised.
The manoeuvres were successful, access ig to Admiral Pratt, but in hhis opinion they proved nothing be-ensue they consisted mainly experimental lesson for the fleet personnel and were not designed to afford any test of defence positions gr offensive possibilities—United Press, May 4.
A Navy "strong enough to keep! us out of war" was demanded by Senator C. M. Hale at a sitting of the Naval Commission of the Senate to-day, when he opened the campaign to pass a Bill authorising the build: ing up of the Navy to Treaty Passage of the Bill, he added, would strengthen the hands of the United. States delegates at Geneva.
Referring to the "melancholy spectacle in the Par East, Hale said: "The treaties in we have placed such implicit trust have utterly failed in. their in mediate effect and, with their pre-stage damaged, they cannot be roied on with any degree of safety in. the future."
'The United States Navy, he continued, was today far' weaker relatively than it was before the Wachington Conference.
Senator Hale warned Japan that the undertaking of the United States et to strengthen her naval fortifications in the Pacific was based on trentics guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China and the Open: Door policy.—Reuter.
May 6.
The Senate to-day passed the Hale Bill, endorsing a policy of building the U. 8. Navy" up. to treaty "limits, but carrying no ap-Bropriation for the purpose The bill had received strong support both because of current difficulties in the Far East, and because of the unemployment situation, which would be remedied in part by a large-scale programme Pres of naval construction.—United
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