THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
IS IT PEACE?
The most unpleasant commentary yet provided on the Naval Conference is the news that France means to proceed at once , with the building of her projected 27,0C0-ton 1 cruiser, carrying eight 12-inch guns ranging over 22 miles. This new vessel, we are told, will be “incomparably superior” to Germany’s boasted “pocket battleships,” and equal in fighting power to any battle cruiser afloat except the Hood; and it is to cost £4,000,000. This is bad enough, in all conscience, but the explanation offered by the French is in my opinion still more ominous. France, they say, is not disposed to allow herself to be caught again as she was in 1914, without a single warship that could have overtaken and overwhelmed so fast and well-armed a' cruiser as the Goeben. So, then, France believes that there will he more fighting at sea and that nations must still depend upon their war fie'ets for safety. Now, has the Naval Conference been a success or a failure 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 4
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172THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 4
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