ANTI-ATOM NAVY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 5

ANTI-ATOM NAVY

BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S PLANS SPECIAL COMMITTEE SET UP (Rec. 1.a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1. . Revolutionary plans for Great Britain’s anti-atom navy will be made in a report to be delivered next Maych by a special committee which the Admiralty Commissioners are appointing, says the Daily Mail’s naval correspondent. The committee will be given I barely three months 1 ' in which to sift i asghass of expert reports already col--1 -sffM' hy ihe vice-chiefs of the naval ’ «inng the reports will be the i'dings of a British observer irif States Navy’s atomic SSBatfl-w, jHments if the .first experlbefore April. $ Atomic Your ■ .-<$M cause modifications in the future war-hips, decisions (P ffijv be made on the future developjiirvbf existing bases. Certain naval vs flor\s claim that the provision of p ro -b'iie bases on the Pacific style is the :y safeguard a fleet against Pan atomic, age. °£ a hydrogen perAl * de turhme capable of driving subw„,ftrier an underwater speed of 25 a complete revision of ile T Great Britain must targe fleet of high-speed dcUoi cruisers or abandon the The committee’s rewhether the 40,000-ton pa is due for trials late will be the last battleship ■ type that the navy will