GERMAN CRUISERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1931, Page 5

GERMAN CRUISERS

NEW POWERFUL VESSELS. . [by CABLE —PBESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Received April 23, 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 22.. Mr Bywater, the “Daily Telegraph’s” Naval editor, reveals the superiority of the German six thousand ton cruisers Konigsberg, Karlsruhe and Koln, which were built in accordance with the Versailles Treaty. Running Diesel engines only, each has a radius of action, exceeding eighteen thousand miles, more than any warship afloat. The Diesel engines develop one horsepower to each Iwelve pounds weight, which is sixtyfive per cent, lighter than the usual marine oil engine. The armament is exceptionally powerful consisting of nine six inch Krupp guns, in three triple turrets, each gun discharging eight rounds per minute. Thus, the three turrets together churn out seventy-two 105 pound shells per minute, a torrent of steel explosives Which only the stoutest armed target could resist. There .are also four aircraft guns and twelve torpedo tubes. TREATY DEADLOCK. LONDON, April 22. The new proposals/of France, in connection with the Anglo-Franco-Italian naval deadlock, were handed to the Foreign Office to-day. They will be translated immediately, and communicated ■, to Australia and New Zealand. Apparently, France re-emphasises her earlier demands.