NAVAL PROGRAMMES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 234, 29 June 1922, Page 7

NAVAL PROGRAMMES

SHIPS OF FIVE GREAT POWERS COMPARED by Tm.vaß.APn.— pbesb association. —OOPYBIGHT. (Rec. June 29, 0.20 a.m.) New York, June 27. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” reports that thdl latest official Naval Intelligence Department’s survey of the increase in the naval programmes of the five Towers signatory to the Washington Naval Treaty shows that Japan has building and projected more ships of unrestricted types than auy other Power. Tho types are: — I. —First lino light cruisers. 11. —Destroyer loaders. '■ 111. First lino destroyers. IV. —First lino stibmarines. V. —Fleet submarines. Ships in these categories now building by the different Powers are: —

Total Total Total Total Total Type TonTypo Ton. Type TonTypo TonI. nage. II. nage. III. nage. nage. V. nage. — 1 1,750 3. 3,725 4 5,800 — — United States 10 75,000 — 3 3,045 36 31,561 3 6,375 Japan Franco Italy 15 81,900 24,000 50 58,500 23 30,394 13,200 52 * 3 6 14,400 12 16,800 12 — ■ 2 16,000 6 12.270 12 11,680 4 2.600 —— — ’Unknown. -Aus. -N.Z. C..blo Ac:n.