THE RUSSIAN NAVY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 83, 24 December 1926, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN NAVY

LARGE ORDERS PLACED

LONDON, December 23. Russia recently placed in foreign yards a number of orders for submarines, including several of large dimensions, says the official correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Th e paper editorially remarks that the competition which used to centre round capital ships has been shifted to destroyers and submarines. "Never were so many vessels of these types afloat, building, or projected. Vast trea.*ire is being poured into the shipyards in order that some Powers may increase their flotillas of mosquito craft. The movement continues without any explanation of policy. This is a subject to which the American people, who gave so notable a lead in the matter of the limitation of '. armament, might with benefit to humanity direct their attention."