JAPAN’S REFUSAL TO LIMIT GUNS
REPORTED DECISION TO EXCEED 14in CALIBRE
LONDON, March 17.
The Foreign Office has received a dispatch from the British Ambassador to Tokyo (Sir Robert Clive) stating that a semi-official news agency and the Asahi Shimbun announce that Japan refuses to accept the naval limitation to 14in guns, but thus far there is no official intimation of this. However, British official quarters are practically resigned to such a decision. Evidently the Japanese are believed to possess a 16in gun which is superior to anything in existence, while Britain considers her new rapid-firing armourpenetrating 14in gun is so efficient that regardless of the Japanese decision she will retain 14in weapons in the battleships being constructed under the 1936-37 programme.
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Southland Times, Issue 23152, 19 March 1937, Page 5
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