NAVAL BUILDING
BIG PROGRAMME IN BRITAIN. EXPECTATION FOR NEXT YEAR. PEACETIME RECORD AT PRESENT (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. Mr Hector Bywater, writing in the “Daily Telegraph,” says he expects the 1938 naval rearmament programme will probably be equal to the extensive building in 1937, when 664,000 tons are being constructed, believed to be a peacetime record. Mr Bywater adds that well-informed circles anticipate that in 1938 three to five more battleships, six or seven cruisers, and a proportionate quota of destroyers, submarines and smaller craft will be constructed, and there will also be another increase in personnel of at least 125,000, including the manning of a largely-increased fleet air arm, in which, during the next four years, aircraft borne by carriers and catapult ships 'will rise from 230 to 550.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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138NAVAL BUILDING Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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