CRUISER PROGRAMME FURTHER REDUCED
ADMIRALTY OPPOSITION By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Saturday. The following %Sci£> g-nnouncemeDt is made: —“Cabinet has now completed its review of the new construe tion programme for the years 1227-28. and 1928-29. It has decided that in addition to the deletion already announced of two of the three cruisers belonging to the financial year 192728, the programme as set forth in the White Paper of July 27, 1925, shall be further modified by omitting one of the three cruisers intended to be begun in the financial year 1928-29. “Three cruisers in all have therefore been omitted fro mthe full programme. The type of the two cruisers to be begun at the end of the financial year 1928-29 is not yet finally settled.” The naval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says it i 3 understood the officials at the Admiralty were most reluctant to sanction the reduction in the number of cruisers They argued that the original programme barely compensated for the deterioration of the older vessels, and that it would be necessary in the course of a few years to scrap about a dozen cruise*!. This would result in a sharp decline in Britain’s position. compared with other Powers, regarding cruiser tonnage.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 1
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