PROPOSED INCREASES
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PROGRAMME TO BRING UP TO LONDON TREATY STANDARD CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS
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Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m. New York, April 2. The New York Times' Washingtcn correspondent has learned. that the Navy Department.has.a plan for, s.ubmission to the president, Mr^ Franklin D. Roosevelt, designed to make; the fleet the approximate strength fixed by the London .Treaty. The-. .cost will be, approximately 230,000,000 dollars spread, over. threeyears, and. 46,000,000 dollars will be expended the first yea,r. .. . . .. , The programme envisages the construction of 20 destroyers, five light cruisers, four submarines and, one " aircraft carrier. The .cruisers specified. are 8000 to 10,000 tons with 6inch guns. ■ The programme is only about one- . third of the tonnage recommended in 1 1930, which Mr. Hoover rejected. . One cruiser designed has an aero- • plane landing deck. -
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 April 1933, Page 5
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