Washington, July, 16.
OMicials of the State Department to-day declined to comment on the British Note invoking the escalator louse in the London Naval Treaty of 1930, Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations and Actin Secretary of the Navy, announced, however, that the United States would take advantage of the British action and would also retain 40,000 tons of over-age destroyers which otherwise would be scrapped, "We will match the British naval authorities as provided by the treaty," he declared—Reut
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