CHINA’S NAVAL PLANS
NATIONALISTS’ AMBITIONS 600,000 TONS OF WARSHIPS (United l’.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Tress Association.) SHANGHAI, Saturday. Nationalist China is planning to build a modern navy, with ships totalling 600,000 tons, within 10 years, as part of the nrnmmmi, of national reconstruction, according to Marshal Chiang Hei-shek, in a speech he made at the launching of the first Nationalist gunboat for the Yangtse River service at Shanghai. The present navy consists of 40,000 tons of obsolete shipping. Chiang
Chiang Kai-shek
said: “We want to recover our national rights and privileges. We must first build a very large naval force, in order to elevate China to the rank of the. leading nations of the world.”.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 9
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