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Show Policing of the Seas to Be Done By United States. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 An important im-portant part In the proposed after-the-war international policing cf tho seas Is expected to fall io th$r American, navy. For that reason, it was learned today, there Is no prospect of any reduction re-duction in the present naval strength ! and the administration instead plans to press urgently for tho passage of i the additional, three year building program. pro-gram. Because the country has been lees hard hit by the war than the great European powers. It may assume a) disproportiopate share of the sea police po-lice work for a time, at least. In any event, Secretary Daniels said today, it is his desire to keep the building progrnm moving forward so rapidly that there will be no doubt of tho ability of the United States to furnish its full quota of naval power when the time comes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 The little naval converted yacht Scorpion, which has been Interned by the Turks at Constantinople since tho United States entered tho war, probably will represent repre-sent America in the allied naval forco proparing to pass through the Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. So far as is known she is the only American war craft in the vicinity. vicini-ty. - rr |