BRITISH NAVAL SECRET

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21122, 24 March 1934, Page 13

BRITISH NAVAL SECRET

♦ Publication in Germanv description or a gun ; ! '/-VlTfiO PHE"= 5 >-« M N —PY ELECTHIC ) ,u * i£Lb :u^rii^'';v:;:G:n ■ (Received March 23, 10.5U p.m.) J LONDON. March 23. j jealously-guarded British; naval s=crct is revealed in the | official organ of the German Ad- I niiralty, accordi:is to the naval cor- j respondent of the "Daily Tele- j graph." l{'•<-' P- P cr S-v n Ge.sc, ,p- ; ticn of anti-an c. ail ! machine-sun designed to operate . ; against aciopiaues and : ' low-fiym- bomber*. It add.s that the weapon, is part ot the i armament o; the British battleships | B nd new cruiser.-. ' An Italian service .iuurna! states that the Eritisn convoy sloop Bit- j tern, which is ordered for the autumn, will have lour six-inch j guns, and that she is the first of ' the new and poweriul type to bo i used for protecting commerce. If this is correct the Admiralty has at j length taken advantage of the ; clause in the London Naval Treaty 1 placing no check on the building of j ships not exceeding 2000 tuns and j limited to 20 knots and four six.- ; inch guns. Twenty of these useful ; sloops could be built for the price I cf four Leander cruisers. j