“SECRET NAVY”
CHARGE AGAINST JAPAN STORING COMPLETED PARTS WARSHIPS IN A FEW DAYS NEW ‘POCKET’ DESTROYERS CREWS’ TORTURE CHAMBERS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.5 p.m. London, Sept. 1. The Daily Herald’s naval expert alleges that Japan is building secret warships in excess of the London Naval Treaty limits. He bases the statement on news reaching him from an authoritative source at Tokyo.
The Japanese, he says, are constructing submarines on the mass production system. Every component part is completed, numbered and stored at the naval bases at Yokosuka and Kure, where there are machines capable of welding the parts into the finished vessel within a matter of days. New pocket destroyers, “sea wolves” of 600 tons, are designed to be the most effective anti-submarine vessels afloat, with a speed of over 40 knots. They are described as torture chambers for the crew, everything being sacrificed to war efficiency.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 7
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