DODGING THE TREATY.
NATIONS AND NAVIES. ; NEW GROUSERS' EFFECT. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, December 8. The naval correspondent of the "Daily Uxpress" says: Sir George Thurston, writing in "Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual," shows how naval architects .can get round the Washington "limitation. Sir George presenis a design for ships conforming to the"l©jOOO-ton ?limit but carrying nine IS-Tnch guns capable of firing a broadside of projectiles weighing 2246 pounds, compared with the war-time light cruiser's '6OO. The "Express" -points out ;that the United States is proposing tpJay down eight new powerful light cruisers, Japan and France six -each, and Italy two. Captain Knox, an American officer, calls attention to 'the rdharges in naval strengths which the new light cruisers are making, adding: "It shall soon make a mockery of the Washington Conference by destroying the agreed ratios and restoring , expensive competitive building."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10279, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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