Admiral Wittoeft-Emden believes the practice of building the smaller-sized warships soon will be forgotten. He explained that Germany undertook the construction of such ships only because it was forced to such action by the Treaty of Versailles.
"The Versailles Treaty placed a limit on the size of German warships and we found it necessary to build greater strength and speed into our 10,000-ton cruisers, which have been termed" vestpocket battleships," he said.
It was the Deutschland, one of the Reich's "vestpocket" fighters, which was bombarded by Spanish Loyalist planes while on patrol some weeks ago resulting in the shelling of Almeria by the German ships as an act of reprisal Continuing his discussion of the vestpocket" type battleships, Admiral Wittoeft-Emden explained the ships do not provide enough "elbow room" for absolutely satisfactory the size of the details of the full-sized battleships he said his nation would construct, It is believed in naval circles here, however, that the Reich soon will construct battleships of the 35,000-ton class such as are to be built by the United States—United Press.
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