NAVY WILL ASSUME OFFENSIFE NEXT WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1938, Page 7

NAVY WILL ASSUME OFFENSIFE NEXT WAR.

COtRIUCS BOAST. First Aircraft-Carrier to Be Launched. POWERFUL ARMAMENT. | United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) BERLIN, November 30. Germany's first aireraft-carrief. mounting: 16 fiin, 30 4in and 22 anti- ] aircraft suns, Raving a speed of 32 knots and tonnage 19,2-50, will be launched at Kiel on December 8. Field-Marshal Goering declares that in a future war the Navy will take the offensive in the Atlantic. A high-speed aircraft-carrier will be attached to every fleet. 'I wo are being built and two are planned, which is in accordance with the naval pact between Britain and Germany. BRITAIN'S STRENGTH. Fleet Air Arm Will Number 500 'Planes. ARK ROYAL COMMISSIONING. (IJeceived ]'J. 30 p.m.) LONDON. November 30. The commissioning of the British aircraft-carrier Ark l!oyal, in December, makes the first-line strength of the Fleet air arm 270 'planes. Five more carriers are being built, bringing the strength to 300 'planes. ITALY AS ALLY. 300,000 Additional Troops To i Help Germany. j TREATY WITH BRITAIN. | (Received 2 p.m.) j KO.MK. November 30. Count Ciano. Foreign Minister, told i (lie Chamber that Italy mobilised .'MMMMMI j additional troops to tight on the side of j Germany if war had broken out in Sep- j tenilter. He added that the agreement Britain was an effective contribution to the consolidation of peace and took account of the new realities of the Kuropean. Mediterranean and African situation, settling the basis of the most absolute moral, political and military equality between Britain and Italy.