STRONGER FLEET

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1933, Page 5

STRONGER FLEET

U.S. NAVY PLAN

DEPARTMENT’S NEW SCHEME.

(United Press Association—By Flee trio

Telegraph—Copyright;

NEW YORK, March 13,

Ti\e “Now York •Times/ ” Washington correspondent has learned that the Navy department lias a plan lor submission to President Roosevelt designed to' make the United States Fleet’s approximate strength equal to that fixed by the London Treaty. The cost would be approximately 230 million dollars, and the outlay would be spread over throe years. Forty-six million dollars would be spent the firet year. .

Ine plan envisages the construction of twenty destroyers, five light cruisers, four submarines, and one aircraft carrier. The cruisers specified are from eight to ten thousand tons, with six inch guns. This programme is only .about onethird of the cost of the tonnage, recommended in 1930, which President Hoover rejected. One cruiser would be designed to have an airplane landing deck.

BUILDING SCHEME OPPOSED

WASHINGTON, March 31

“A cessation of battleship building, until we can overhaul pur system, of national defence,” js a recommendation made to the House Military Coin? mittee by Major General Benjamin Foulois, the Chief of the Army Air Force,

GERMANY’S NEW BATTLESHIP

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The new German battleship referred to in a cable on March 30, Iras been launched, a nd has been named the Admiral Sclieer. after the German commander at the I3attlp of Jutland.