TREATY CRUISER.
Latest Addition to United States Navy. BIG- BUILDING PROGRAMME. NEW YORK, December 1. The new American 10,000-ton treaty cruiser Brooklyn was launched yesterday. Rear-Admiral W. H. Standley revealed that the Navy, in the next session of Congress, would ask for an appropriation of 175,000,000 dollars for a 10-year building programme for the rehabilitation of the battle fleets and auxiliary craft.
The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that when President Roosevelt returns from South America one of his first acts will be to invoke the power, voted at the last session of Congress, to start the construction early in 1937 of two of the most powerful battleships ever built. They will be of 35,000 tons and will have a speed of 25 knots, but the calibre of their guns has not been decided.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 7
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