14-INCH GUNS
JAPAN DECLINES LIMIT
TOKIO, March 23.
Cabinet has approved a draft treaty with Great Britain declining the 14----inch gun limit proposed in 1936 under the London Naval Treaty.
A 'message received from London on March 20 stated that it had been confirmed that Japan intended to build 16-inch guns. The Government had verbally informed Sir Robert Clive, British Ambassador in Japan, that it "could not see its way clear to accept the 14-inch limitation."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 9
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7614-INCH GUNS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 9
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