GROWING NAVY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 256, 26 July 1935, Page 11

GROWING NAVY

Russians Now Building Sixtieth Submarine

TEN MORE ORDERED

Construction of Cruisers and Destroyers

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received July 25, 8.10 p.m.)

London, July 24.

The "Daily Telegraph's” naval correspondent learns authoritatively that Russia last month laid the keel of her sixtieth submarine, and that orders have been placed for 10 more. Tiie majority are of 800 tons with a speed of 15 knots and a 7000-mile radius. They are armed with one fourinch gun and 10 torpedo tubes. The correspondent points out Unit four years ago Russia hail only 15 submarines, most of which were obsolete. Russia is also building cruisers and destroyers, and is modernising two old battleships.

JAPAN UNPERTURBED

World Naval Situation

Tokio, July 24.

A Navy Office spokesman declares that the failure of negotiations for a new naval conference floes not perturb Japan, which is not afraid of the absence of a treaty because she would then build a more effective defensive navy more cheaply than by replacing vessels as is necessitated by the London Treaty.

UNION AIRWAYS

English Machines Ordered

POSSIBLE TASMAN LINK

London, July 24

It. is believed that the ultimate ambition of Union Airways, recently formed by tiie Union Steam Ship Company, Is the establishment of a traus-Tasman air service linking Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. N. S. Falla, managing director of the Union Company, told the “Sun-Herald” Press Agency: “Someone is sure to establish a Tasman air service when the time comes, and quite probably we shall be ready to attempt it. We have no immediate plans, but It would be futile to deny that a New Zealand-Australia service is a certainty of the future.” Mr. Falla, Squadron-Leader MacGregor, manager of the Union Airways service, and Flight Lieutenant G. Bolt, chief pilot of Cook Strait Airways, have lodged New Zealand’s largest commercial order for five multi-engined airliners with the de Havilland Company, In order to provide daily services between Palmerston North and Dunedin, and Wellington and Nelson. Mr. Falla admitted that the formation of an air arm was a natural development of a modern, shipping company.