The House Naval Affairs committee last Wednesday unanimously approved the recommendation of Admiral Harold R, Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, to increase the length of the United States Fleet 70 per cent.
Should the Senate pass the bill the total number of ships in the American Navy will be brought up to 738. The 200 new ships would be completed in the next five to seven years and would give the United States a two-ocean navy larger than the combined British and Japanese fleets of today, The House Committee, before presenting the unprecedented naval bill to the House yesterday, also amended the act to permit the Navy to build U.S.$25,000,000 worth of mosquito torpedo boats similar to those recently supplied to the Philippines—United Press, European developments during the past two months, however, have forced delegates' to alter their opinions somewhat and many now feel that Mr, Dewey may not have enough diplomatic and political experience behind him to defeat a Democratic candidate, especially if that candidate should be President Roosevelt, In the past two weeks, leading Republican businessmen throughout the nation seemed to have changed their choice of candidates, observers believed. Many former' staunch Dewey supporters have switched to the Willie or Taft camps, it was understood, President Roosevelt's nomination of two leading Republicans to his Cabinet—Colonel Frank Knox and Colonel Henry Stimson—shocked Republican delegates considerably, but the convention's interest was concentrated on the foreign policy to be presented to the people of the United States during the campaign, and in this one aspect alone, it was believed, the fate of the man to be chosen Republican candidate rested,—United Press, Greek Ship Said Raided By Italian "Planes Algiers, June 23.
The Greek freighter Alexandra was attacked off Algeria yesterday by twenty two Italian planes but was not damaged, the General Information Service announced in an official communique today.
During the night, the Swedish freighter Elgo was bombed by enemy planes. A lifeboat with 25 men in it ran ashore on the coast of Algeria this morning.
In Algeria itself, the communique added, the day was quiet both on land and in the air—Havas.
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