JAPANESE NAVY BUILDING
LIMIT OF LONDON TREATY.
PROGRAMME CONTEMPLATED.
By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Tokio, July 10. Determined to build to the limit of the London Treaty, the navy staff contemplate the building of two cruisers of 8500 tons, two aeroplane carriers of 10,000 tons, and 14 destroyers of 1400 tons, six submarines, a mine-layer and eight torpedo boats, besides eight ‘new flying unite. The naval authorities are reported to be pledged to oppose tooth and nail any reduction of the estimates, considering them the absolute minimum for national defence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1933, Page 7
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