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Show STAFF TOO SMALL TO GET RESULTS li ; . EUROPE SIS SAYS Rear Admiral Nears End of Long Testimony About the ; Navy in Great War ARRIVES IN ENGLAND I WITH ONLY ONE AID j Civilian Volunteers to Assist and This Comprises Entire Staff, Witness Says WASHINGTON, March 17. Hearing the end of his ldng statement to 'the senate investigating committee, Rear Admiral Sims today elaborated his , charges that the inadequacy of his 'Staff abroad prevented for several months' maximum' efficiency in "tho, United Stales naval participation in ' the war. He testified that he was un-' able to bring the navy department to a realization of the importance of his I post and necessity for providing a largo staff at the outset to compile and j digest allied naval information and dl-I dl-I rcct the early details of American cooperation co-operation on the seas. Arrives in London Admiral Sims said he arrived In London in April. 1917 "with but one nlde and immediately realizing the magnitude of the task confronting him, cabled the department requesting that three additional assistants be sent him at once. Before he received any reply he was placed also in command of the destroyer force abroad and thereupon asked for three more officers, offi-cers, j The last of April one officer arrived and was assigned to the destroyer base at Queenslown. Throughout June he remained in ignorance of the department's de-partment's plans and received no further fur-ther aid, tho officer said. An American Ameri-can civilian who had resigned from the navy in 1931 to enter in business! in London, volunteered to assist him, ' the admiral said, and this man with his one aide comprised his entire London Lon-don staff. Gets Medical Officer In June a medical officer was ordered order-ed to his staff, the admiral said, and about the same time Secretary Daniels cabled him authority to employ cleri- cal assistance and spend any sums needed lor the discharge of his' duties, but nothing was done regarding the officers he had asked sent to him in his technical duties. On July 27. Captain N. C. Twining was detailed to be his chief of staff, the admiral said. |