AMERICAN NAVY
EXPANSION URGED. BUILDING TO LIMIT. HUGE TONNAGE. ,• . ? (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) , Received Mav 9, 9.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 9. The Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Harold Stark), in a letter to Senator Allen Ellender (a member of the Naval Affairs Committee), disclosed that he would ask Congressional appropriations to enable the immediate construction of a navy to the authorised limit, thus adding 99,500 tons of battleships, 20,400 tons of ’plane-carriers, 81,849 tons of cruisers, 75,430 ’ tons of destroyers, and 22,456 tons of submarines.
These, plus the 11 per cent, expansion now pending i.u Congress, would add a total of 490,360 tons, making the total tonnage of warships 1,444,915 tons.
The fleet has arrived at Honolulu after two weeks’ extensive secret manoeuvres west of Hawaii. Next week it will carry out lurther training exercises oil the Lahaina area.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9
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