TREATY RESULTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 7

TREATY RESULTS.

CRUISER STRENGTH. Effect of Naval Pact On Three Leading Powers. FIRST LORD EXPLAINS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, April 30. Mr. A. Y. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons that the effect of the' London Naval treaty in regard to cruiser strength was as follows:— Great Britain would not construct the two -8-inch gun, 10,000 : ton cruisers of the'l92S programme, and the one 8-inch gun, 10,000-ton cruiser of the 1929 programme. The United States, which entered the Conference with a projected programme of '-twenty-three 8-incli gun. 10,000-ton cruisers, would actually not complete more than fifteen of this type before 1936, retaining only the option to have three more under construction, not to be completed before 193G, 1937, and 1930 respectively. Japan would remain at her present figrn-e of twelve 8-inch gun, 10,000-ton cruisers, and would not embark on fresh construction as previously anticipated. As regarded 6-inch gun cruisers, the Naval Treaty only allowed, generally speaking, for replacements, except that in the case of the United States, special provision was made for the carrying out of long-postponed cruiser construction. Mr. Alexander said that the Government intended to take into immediate consideration' the whole position regarding the Singapore Naval Base, and that it must fie done In consultation with the Dominions.