NAVAL TREATY

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7

NAVAL TREATY

ATTITUDE OF AMERICA. A FAVOURABLE REPORT. EARLY RATIFICATION LIKELY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 16. The Naval Affairs Committee of the Senate to-day reported favourably on the London treaty, and the chairman. Mr K. Pittman, announced that it would be brought up in the House on Monday with every assurance that it would be ratified without opposition. Mr Norman Davis and Rear-Admiral W. H. Standley were the principal witnesses before the committee. Both said there was nothing in the treaty inimical to America's interests. They admitted, however, that it was not what they had hoped for as it did not provide for quantitative limitation. THE SINGAPORE BABE. ADDITIONAL AREA PURCHASED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May 16. The Sun-Herald news service says the British Admiralty has purchased an additional area of 400 acres at Singapore for the extensions of the naval base, which with the graving dock, the air base and the barracks already exceeds four square miles. GERMANY’B NAVAL BTRENGTH. VESSELS UNIJER CONSTRUCTION United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 18, 11.50 a.m.) BERLIN, May 17. The Naval Gazette shows that Germany possesses the armoured ships Deutschland, Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf von Spee, the cruisers Emden, iKonigsberg, Karlsruhe, Koln, Leipzig and Nuremberg, nineteen torpedo boats, nineteen submarines, a submarine mothership, three naval tenders, 49 mine-sweepers, seven gunnery training ships, and the cli battleships Hannover, Schlesien ami Schleswig—Holstein. Tlie vessels under construction are two battleships (replacing the Elsass and the Hessen), three cruisers, sixteen destroyers, seventeen submarines, seven naval tenders and four minesweepers.