NAVAL GUN LIMITATION
JAPAN REFUSES 14-INCH LIMIT LARGER CALIBRE DESIRED LONDON. March 17. The Foreign Office has received a dispatch from Sir R. H. Clive, Ambassador at Tokio, that the semiofficial news agency and the newspaper Ashai announce that Japan refuses to accept the 14-inch gun limitation, but thus far there has been no official intimation of this. However, British official quarters are practically resigned to such a decision. Evidently the Japanese are believed to possess a 16-inch gun superior to anything in existence, while Britain considers that her new rapid-firing armour-penetrat-ing 14-inch gun is so efficient that, regardless of the Japanese decision, she will retain 14-inch guns in the 193637 battleships.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 7
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112NAVAL GUN LIMITATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 7
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