London, Jan. 20.
From an official statement of the Cabinet's raval plans, it transpires that the type of the two cruisers to be Laid down in 1928 has not been definitely fixed. This is taken to mean that it is possible that they will be of the 10,000-instead of the 8,000-ton type.
Jan, 21.
The following official announcement has been made:
"The Cabinet have now completed their review of the new construction Programme for the years 1927-28, 1928-29. They have decided that, i in addition to the deletion, already announced, of two cruisers belonging to the financial year 1927-28, the programme as set forth in the White Paper of July 27, 1925, shall be further modified by omitting one of the three cruisers it was intend fed to begin in the financial ye 1928-29. Three cruisers inal have, therefore, been reduced from the full programme.
"The type of the two cruisers be begun at the end of the financial year 1928-29 is not yet finally settled. It may be recalled that the British naval programme for the current year, 1927-28, provided for three cruisers, one "A Class" cruiser of 10,000 tons and: two "B Class" cruisers of 8,000 tons each. In March, last year, the First Lord of the Admiralty announced that, in view of the forthcoming Geneva disarmament conference—between Braitain, the United States and Japan, no orders would be given out until Into last year. The Geneva conference broke up without reaching an agreement, the main difficulty being the application of the principle of parity of cruiser forces. But when, towards the end of last year, the time came for a decision to be taken on the ordering of the ordering of the authorise, new ships, the Bri Government announced that, instead of building one 10,000-ton and two 8,000-ton cruisers in the year 1927-28, only one 8,000-ton cruiser would be proceeded with. Now only two of the three cruisers for which provision was made in 1028-29 are to be laid—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.