NAVY COMPARISON.
BRITAIN WARNED
GREAT ACTIVITY.
(Received Noon.)
UONIDON. March 19
In a remarkable speech on the navy estimates in the House of Commons Commander Carlyon Bellairs, a prominent naval expert, said that the Japanese yards were working 24 hours a day in order to rapidly com plete warships. Her naval personnel now equalled that of Germany in 1914. Britain would have all her work cut out to maintain a substantial margin over Japan. He thought it would be impossible soon to put pre-war dreadnoughts ' into line with the post-Jutland battleships. For instance the American battleship Indiana was infinitely superior to the Queen Elizabeth; indeed the disparity was far greater than between dreadnoughts, and pre-dread-noughts. If Britain sent the Hood and four new ibattleships to the Pacific by 19124 she would have only five post-Jutlands against. Japan's eight.—A. and NZ.
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Northern Advocate, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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140NAVY COMPARISON. Northern Advocate, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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