THE JAPANESE NAVY
SECRET BUILDING ALLEGED TREATY LIMITS EXCEEDED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, atTO p.m.) The Daily Herald’s naval expert alleges that Japan is building secret warships in excess of the London Naval Treaty limits. He bases bis statement on news that has reached him from an authoritative source at Tokio. The Japanese are constructing submarines on the mass production system, every component part being completed, numbered, and stored at the naval bases at Yokosuka and Kure, where there are machines capable of welding the parts into a finished vessel within a matter of days. New pocket destroyers, “ sea wolves,” of 600 tons, are designed to be the most effective anti-submarine vessels afloat, with a speed of over 40 knots. They are described as torture chambers for the crew, everything being sacrificed to war efficiency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22048, 2 September 1933, Page 11
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