NAVAL COMPETITION
TAKEN NEW FORM LIGHTER VESSELS TO ATTACK COMMERCE London, March 19. Mr. Archibald Hurd, in an article in the “Daily Telegraph,” dissects the feet comparisons accompanying the Navy Estimates. He points out that naval competition has taken a new form of building lighter vessels useful for attacking commerce. Such vessels building or projeetd are as follow:—Britain, 18j United States, 24: Japan. 75: Franco, 43; Italy, 18; Russia. 34. Mr. Hurd agrees that the centre or naval gravity has shifted to the Pacific, where the great, fleets of the United States and Japan are concern trated. The Empire has vital interests there, even if the existence of Australia and New Zealand were ignored, in the light of Britain’s ever-increasing commerce in the Pacific. It would be preposterous to suggest further Britist fleet economies.—/Vus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 7
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