NAVAL STRATEGY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 219, 15 September 1932, Page 7

NAVAL STRATEGY.

Japan's Submarine Supremacy Refuted in Britain.

TACTICS DISCUSSED.

LONDON, September 14. Mr. Hector C. Bywater, naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," in an article in that journal, says: "British experts do not admit Japan's claim to supremacy in submarines. Her conception of war strategy visualises the advance of an enemy battle fleet across the Pacific in order to sever communications with the Asiatic continent and the Dutch East Indies, which would be Japan's vital arteries in time of war. "To avert this Japan proposes to waylay the enemy and inflict staggering losses upon him before he reaches Japanese waters. Hence she is developing large long-range submarines. "However, the largest of these boats only carry two 5.5-inch guns. The German U boats handed over to Japan after the Great War inspired the design of many of the Japanese submarines. "British submarines are based on different strategic ideas. In strength, construction, quick diving, cruising radius and safety, the British craft are the equal of any in the world."