WORLD’S LARGEST FORCE
STATES NAVAL BOAST ARM OF THE FUTURE. HUGE BUILDING PROGRAMME. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIG HT WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. Admiral Hughes, Chief of the Naval Operations, informed the House Naval Affairs Committee that the five new aircraft carriers asked for in the five years’ programme will bring the United States to its limit of 135,000 tons for this class of ship under the Washington Treaty, but an unlimited number of airplane carriers under 10,000 tons each can be built without violating the treaty. The contemplated aircraft carriers would carry 76 ’planes each.
Representative Britten asked the State Department for an interpretation of tlie exact limitation on aircraftcarriers in the Washington Treaty. Admiral Hughes said that cruisers must serve to protect the foreign trade routes of the United States.
Representative McClintock asked whether it was not more important to have aeroplanes than cruisers and battleships. Representative Britten quoted the “Manchester Guardian” to the effect that the projected naval programme was a “paper programme,” and intimated the necessity for fixing a definite time limit within which the ships were to .be built. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Warner announced that the Navy has on order 380 ’planes (100 bombers. 160 observation, and 120 fighting ’planes). All these were of the most modern design and will be completed within nine months. “This number alione,” said Mr. Warner, “is larger than any force known to be in existence in any other country.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 7
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