JAPANESE NAVY
BUILDING PROGRAMME
POWERFUL WARSHIPS PLANNED By Telograph-Press Association-Copy rielit New York, August 27. The Washington correspondent of tho New York "Times" says:—lt is understood that-Japan is putting out of commission all her line-of-battle warships more than ten years old. Japan is building super-Dreadnoughts of a displacement of -40,000 tons and a speed of 30 knots, with a main battery of 16-inch guns, but is not building any electrical-ly-driven 6hips. Japan's battle fleet in 1923 is expecied to include eight battleships mounting forty-eight 14-inch guns and thirty-two 16-inch guns, with a total displacement of 258,800 tons, and 6ix bat-tle-cruisers mounting thirty-two 14-inch guns and sixteen 16-inch guns, with a total broadside fire of 76,70-1 pounds. It is expected that Japan's building programme will be completed by 1927. with twelve battleships and twelve battlecruisers. added to the fleet. There have been some reports that the programme is delayed owing to lack of steel, but it is understood that there is a sufficient supply of steel.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Rssn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 4
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