BRITAIN’S SEA DEFENCE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 7

BRITAIN’S SEA DEFENCE

Agreement With Germany Creates New Problems V • FLEET MUCH UNDER STRENGTH NAVAL AUTHORITY’S VIEW (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received noon today. LONDON, June 13. Mr H. C. By water, .. the “Daily Telegraph” naval correspondent, points out that if the agreement is concluded under which Germany is to have 35 per cent, proportion of Britain’s naval stie. gth, she could have in the various categories five 22,000ton battle cruisers with eleven or twelve-inch guns, six 8160-ton heavy cruisers with eight-inch guns, 36 1000ton destroyers, nineteen 8000-ton submarines and two 25,000-ton aiiciaft carriers. The only British ships capable ot dealing with battle cruisers of the type foreshadowed arc the Hood, Renown and Repulse. The two lastnamed almost certainly would be outpaced. Britain thus is confronted with new naval problems of the first magnitude.

DELEGATES RETURN TO LONDON. RESUMPTION OF NAVAL TALKS, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 13. The German delegation, headed by Herr von Ribbcntrop, arrived at Croydon by a special aeroplane for the naval conversations which will resume to-morrow. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, as Chancellor of the Cambridge University, was present at convocation for the eonfirment of honorarv degrees and later I’oturned to London and other Cabinet Ministers, who have assumed new offices since tho reconstruction of Cabinet, have also returned, Sir Samuel Hoaro receiving courtesy calls at the Foreign Office from ambassadors and Ministers.