NAVAL REARMAMENT
WHTAHTB 1938 PROGRAMME HR HEITOR RYWATER'S FORECAST 3 Pfeit A»oci»tjoa—By Telegraph—Copyright . - Loii)dN, August 4. (Received August 5, at 10 a.m.) Mir Hector Bywater, in the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ expects that the 1938 naval rearmament programme will probably be equal to the extensive building pf 1937, when 664,000 tons were being constructed, believed to be a peacetime record Ho adds that well-in-formed circles anticipate that in 1938 three to five further battleships, six or seven, cruisers, and a proportionate quota of destroyers, submarines, and smaller craft will be constructed, also that there will be another increase in 'the personnel of at least 125,000, inicluding the' manning of tho largely-in-tcreased fleet air arm, in which during the next four years tho aircraft borne by carriers and catapult ships will rise from 230 to 550.
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Evening Star, Issue 22719, 5 August 1937, Page 11
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133NAVAL REARMAMENT Evening Star, Issue 22719, 5 August 1937, Page 11
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