1938-03-29 — Page 24

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29.

Plans For Bigger British Battleships

London, To-day.

Further consultations between British, American and French naval experts are being held to day, says Mr. Hector Bywater, naval corres- pondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

NO ROOM FOR MISTAKE

The meeting is likely to be deci- sive, and the Powers will agree to invoke the escalator clause

Mr. Bywater says that it is now certain that the Treaty maximum of 35,000 tons will be raised- tr above 40,000 tons, and that the two British ships built under the 1938 Saying there should be no mis-programme will probably surpass understanding regarding the char- HMS. Hood, which is 42,000 tons.

Shanghai, To-day.

acter of the new regime in Nan- king as being a purely Japanese creation, the "North China `Daïy

NEW US. SHIPS

News," in an editorial this morn-

The correspondent adds that re- ing, declares that some of those ports from Washington indicate Chinese assisting in the formation the new American battleships will are undoubtedly doing so because be from 43,000 to 45,000 tons of a very natural desire to

come mounting ten or more 16-inch guns. back into the limelight from which The warships will cost $16,000,000 they were banished when the Na-each but it does not follow that the tional Government secured control British ships will have the of China..

tonnage and armament Renter

The newspaper says that thus in this area, as well as in North China, the Anfu Clique are emerg- ing from the cbscurity in which they have dwelt for the past eleven years and are taking the opportun- ity to reassert themselves. Reuter.

HANKOW JUBILANT

OVER SUCCESSES

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divisions in southern Shantung are retreating in disorder.

Earlier, General Li said that following the launchug of a general offensive on Saturday. the Chinese troops under Gen- eral Chang Tze-chung, former Mayor of Tientsin, recaptured Linching, routing the Isogai Division, part of which is now retreating eastward in the dî- rection of the Paotuku Hills Reuter

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