NAVAL EFFICIENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1932, Page 5

NAVAL EFFICIENCY

' JAPAN SUPERIOR I

.-i- • • f TO BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.)

J LONDON - , September 12. ■ “Bywater,” the . naval cone-pend-ent of the ‘Daily Telegraph,” draws attention to the faot • ‘‘that the Japanese submarine flotilla is new the most powerful, arid ./most efficient in the iworld.” • " . , ‘Tlhis,” he ;.say», ; “ie the claim of Seitoku . Ita, - foremost naval ■publicist. 'ltat f'claims that' ‘the ■ British and American e&hhiarmes are,'beyond (Comparison, inferior tb the Japanese submarines, and that, even with Hawaii as their. :advianced ; ■ base,' the American submarines' would have difficulty in getting into .the - Japanese waters, but all’ of the Japanese sub--1 marines aife capable of bruising ■ ito Hawaii and back under war ‘'conditions, and the best of them could penetrate to San Francisco and to the' Panama Canal.’” " “Bywater” comments as follows: “Despite the efforts of th e Japanese naval authorities to guard their secrets, the amazing qualities of the Japanese submarines have become known to the : foreign . Admirailtie*.■ . ' Japan ha* now ; iftbarly - thirty f of these boats ranging from 1,150 tons to 1,955 tons, and mostly with ft speed of nineteen knots, . Japan is also taking the lead with her- twenty-four destroyers of 1700 tons ekeh arid a speed" of 35 knots an hour,'‘'which constitute the most formidably torpedo craft afloat except the latest; French flotilla leaders.” " ' - ' v r' ; '• ‘ :

“The- completion of Japan’s . new ■cruisers,” he adds, “brings the total of Japan’s postwar cruisers, to thirtythree.'Her latest cruisers are of 8,500 tons, witlh. a speed of thirty-three knots. They carry fifteen guns, and' are able .to deliver a broadside of 150 shells par minute.*’ 1