GERMANY’S NAVAL STRENGTH.
NEW BATTLESHIP CONSTRUCTION. 810 PROGRAMME REVEALED. (By.. Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, .10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov: 23..
The German Naval Year Book, . according to Mr. Hector Bywater writing in the Telegraph, reveals that when. the present new construction is delivered, Germany will have two battleships of 35,000 tons, armed with 15 inch, guns; two battleships of 26,000 tons, armed with 11 inch guns; three 10,000 tons pocket battleships, armed with 11 inch guns; five 10,000 and eight 7000 tons cruisers; two aircraft carriers of 20,000 tons; twenty-two super and thirty smaller destroyers; and sixty-one submarines.
This programme conforms with the 100/35 ratio of the London Naval Treaty.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 November 1937, Page 5
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