BRITISH NAVAL STRENGTH
MTENTION OF OVER-AGE CRUISERS II OBJECTION IN AMERICA Press. Association —By Te'egraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, December 17. Brifeiin’s decision to retain five overage cruisers was not a surprise,_ and occasioned no objection. Satisfaction is expressed that Britain acted in strict accordance with the terms of the escalator clause in the naval treaty. The United States is without over-age ormsers, and a similar step is imposible. U.s. DESTROYER TONNAGE (TRANSFER FROM CRUISER CLASS. NEW YORK, December 17. The ‘ Herald-Tribune’s ’ Washington cororwpondent says it is reported that the United States will keep 19,000 tons of extra destroyer strength by transfer from the cruiser class, permitted under Article,l7 of .the treaty, which will give .the United States 209,000 tons of destroyers at the expiration of the treaty, compared with Britain’s 190,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 17
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