MASS PRODUCTION.
Fast New Submarines Planned For Japan. TREATY BREAKING ALLEGED. LONDON, September 1. That Japan •is building secret warships in excess of the limits allowed under the London Naval Treaty is alleged by the "Daily Herald's" naval expert. Tho writer bases hie statement on news which, he says, has reached him from an authoritative source in Tokyo. The Japanese, ho declares, are constructing submarines on the mass production system. Every component part is completed, numbered and stored in the naval bases at Yokosuka and Kure, wheVe there exist machines capable of welding the parts into a finished vessel within a matter of days. New "pocket" destroyers, known as "sea wolves," of 600 tons, are designed to be the most effective anti-submarine vessel afloat, with a speed of more than 40 knots. These destroyers are described as torture chambers for the crews, everything having been sacrificed to war efficiency.
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Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 9
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