Many readers have written to the "Daily Telegraph" expressing surprise and anxiety at the Admiralty's. decision to arm the fine new 35,000-ton battleships of the King George V. class with 14in. guns, Their fears are based on Japan's refusal to accept this limit on calibre, and the consequent probability that the new United States and Japanese capital units will mount 16in. guns, states the journal's naval correspondent.
Why, it is asked, should the British Ships be given an apparently inferior armament, in -view of- the proved Supremacy of the heaviest gun -in naval actions during the Great War?
In reply, it may be pointed out that the design of our new battleships was worked out in close collaboration with all the technical and executive heads of the Navy, including its foremost gunnery experts. The final design was unanimously approved as representing the most efficient battleship it was possible to construct within the Treaty limit of 35,000 tons displacement.
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