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...Guns. Senator Hale se cured from the Navy wooden models of 6-in. guns and 8-in. guns as used on cruisers, set them up in his office to outline his objections to the treaty. Carefully he explained that a 6-in. gun would fire a 105-lb. shell 10 miles; an 8-in. gun a 260-lb. shell 18 miles. What seemed to displease him most was that, whereas under the 1929 naval plan 23 cruisers of 10,000 tons each, armed with 8-in. guns, would have been constructed, under the treaty this force would...
Senator Hale well knew there was a split in expert naval opinion as to the relative value of these two types of cruisers. Senator Robinson anticipated this division of naval thought last week when he declared: "This is a question, I believe, which will never be settled to the satisfaction of everyone. The treaty recognizes the larger cruiser as more consistent with our needs in that we build 18 to 15 for the British. Some of the experts do not regard those figures as satisfactory. The treaty is as near parity as could be devised...
...cabinet released copies of Italy's current warboat building program - prepared weeks ago but ominous enough to seem to Frenchmen like a postConference threat. Twenty-nine fighting ships will be laid down this year and built at a cost of $40,000,000: one 10,000-ton cruiser; two 5,100-ton flotilla leaders; four 1,240-ton destroyers and 22 submarines. At London Italy signed, as did France, that part of the Treaty which provides for "humanization of submarine warfare" (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.) but this in no way restricts the building of submarines...
...Capone, when not attending court last week, sat on the deck of his motor cruiser, clad in a dark blue bathrobe with light blue and white stripes and a pair of bedroom slippers, sucked at a big cigar, flicked a fishing line in and out of water. The Union Jack flapped about his feet. He also posed for photographers in his bathing suit...
...Cruiser Parity. As Delegate-Senator Robinson (Dem.) pointed out by radio from London last week, Britain has laid down so many more war boats than the U S since the War that, even though the construction soon to begin will more than double the U. S. large-cruiser fleet, this will mean not superiority but mere catching up to "parity" with Britain...