KING’S LEVEE
NEW ZEALANDERS ATTEND Received March 19, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 17. New Zealanders attending the King’s Levee to-day were Colonel Miles, Captain Gentry, SquadronLeader Wallingford, and FlyingOfficer Dix. than before the war, though then we had a larger fleet. Naval relations between Britain and America were excellent. “The more ships built in the United States the more confidence we may have that lhe forces on which world peace depends will be maintained,” added Mr. Churchill. The Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Lieut.-Colonel J. J. Llewellin, replying to Mr. Churchill, said there was no indication that Japan was building cruisers between 10,000 tons and the lower limit of the old Washington treaty. It was too late to change the guns of five battleships being built, which will be fourteen inchers, but measure were being taken to provide, if necessary, for sixteen inchers for the battleships projected in the White Paper. Meantime the 14-inch guns were most satisfactory and might be as efficient as other people’s 16-inch weapons.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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