NAVAL CONSTRUCTION

Evening Star, Issue 18812, 10 December 1924, Page 5

NAVAL CONSTRUCTION

EVASION OF TREATY ALLEGED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 8. The ‘Daily Express’s’ naval correspondent says that Sir George Thurston, writing ia ‘ Brasaey’s Annual,’ shows now naval architects can get round the Washington Treaty. Sir George Thurston -re sents a design of ships conforming to the 10,0C0-ton limit but carrying mne 2 Gin guns, capable of firing a broadside in which each projectile would weigh 2,2461 b, compared with the wartime light cruiser’s projectile of 6001 b. The ‘ Daily Express ’ points out that the United Stales is proposing to lay down eight now powerful light cruisers; Japan and France six each, and Italy two. Captain Knox, an American officer, calls attention to the changes in naval strengths which the new light cruisers are making, adding: "They will soon make a mockery of the Washington Conference by destroying the agreed ratios and restoring expensive competitive building,’’—A. and N.Z. Cable.