NAVAL ARMAMENTS.
NEW DESIGN FOR SHIPS. LONDON, Dec. 8. The Daily Express’s naval correspondent- says that Sir George Thurston, writing in Brassey’s Annual, shows how naval architects can get round the Washington limitations. Sir George presents a design for ships conforming with the 10,000-tou limit, but carrying nine 18in guns capable of firing a broadside, each projectile weighing 2246 pounds, compared with the wartime light cruisers 600 pounds. The Express points out that the United States is proposing to lay down eightnew powerful light cruisers, Japan and France six each, and Italy two. Captain Knox, an American officer, calls attention to the changes in naval strengths which the new light cruisers are making, adding: “This will soon make a- mockery of the Washington Conference by destroying the agreed ratios and restoring expensive competitive building.”—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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