CRUISERS FOR AMERICA
PRESIDENT TO ORDER FIVE MORE TWO NOW BEING BUILT WASHINGTON, Sunday. The parity in aircraft carrier tonnage provided for in the Washington Treaty is the most urgent need of naval aviation, according to the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. F. Adams. His annual report did not specify whether the Navy wished the maximum tonnage to be the 135,000 tons permitted under the Washington Treaty, or merely a figure equal to the British aircraft carrier tonnage, which is about 107,000 tons. Mr. Adams announces that the President intends to call for the completion of all the first five 10,000-ton cruisers, authorised in February last, by June, 1933. Two of them are now being built, while the others will not be begun until after the London Naval Conference, although the plans are to be pushed on immediately. Congress is expected to make reservations to the programme, if that is necessary to conform with any decisions reached at the conference.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 9
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