SEA POWER
SUPERIORITY OF DEMOCRACIES OVER DICTATOR COUNTRIES THREE-TO-ONE ADVANTAGE lU.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] WASHINGTON. 25th November. The naval intelligence officers have completed tables showing that the world Powers, Japan excluded, are at present building 1,821,000 tons of ships. They already possess, including Japan's 1936 figures, 6,700,000 tons, of which Britain has 2,133,000 and the United States 1,618,000. Adding Fiance's total, this gives the democracies a total of 4,545.000 tons, compared with 1.253,000 for Italy and Germany, which is a three-to-one advantage, or, if Japan’s 898.000 tons are included, a two-to-one advantage foi* the democracies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 9
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