BRITAIN RETAINING OLD CRUISERS
NOTICE BEEN GIVEN TO U.S.A AND JAPAN ACTION TAKEN UNDER LONDON NAVAL TREATY JAPAN HAS ALREADY GIVEN FAVOURABLE REPLY. (British Official Wireless.)" .. (Received 1.30 p .m.) RUGBY, December 22. Formal notice has been conveyed to the United States and Japanese Embassies at London of the intention of the United Kingdom Government to have recourse to Article 21 of the London Naval Treaty, in order to retain five cruisers which were to be scrapped. ' * It is understood that these ships will be used, not as cruisers but as anti-aircraft ships, which will] involve the substitution of lighter guns for their existing armament of six-inch guns. The Japanese reply to the proposal was in favourable term, as was anticipateda. ’ *
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 316, 23 December 1936, Page 5
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121BRITAIN RETAINING OLD CRUISERS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 316, 23 December 1936, Page 5
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