Bisbee daily review., 1921-01-08
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Complete Information Show ing Strengths Of All
 Navies Is Secured
JAPAN IN THIRD PLACE
American Government Leads In Number Of First-Line
 Ships Being Built

WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-tBv The Associated Press D-Wnat officials be- lieve 10 be complete information aS to the relative naval strength of the principal world powers is now in DOS fsesSion Of the American government. Whether it will be presented to the senate foreign relations committee in connection with that committees con sideration of proposals looking io world disarmament has not been dis closed.
 The information has been compiled in the form of tables which shows that Great Birtain's sea power is dou- ble that of the United States and that although the British preponGer- ance in capital ships will have nrac- tically been overcome by the United States with the completion in 1929 of the American building program, tine American navy will still be greatly in ferior in types of vessels which naval officers regard as extremely impor- tant, notably destroyer leaders. cruis- CTS and light cruisers, cruising Subma- rines and airplane ships
 The American navy today, accord ing to this information. has more than double the strength of the Ja. paneSe navy and this ration will be maintained even with the completion .oi the building prqSgams Of the two countries. The United States will be far superior, not onIy in capital ships but also in destroyerS and submarines. Japan, however, will have doubled the number of battle cruisers, now pos SesSins four such vessels with eiehJ others projected while the United States has none completed and only six building.
 26 British BattIesnias
 Without reference To SecOni line ships, Of which Great Britain has a preponderance in all classes over the United States and Japan. the British nary contains 26 battleShips. caTryinS at least 10 guns each of I2 inch cali Der or larger and displacing 20,10e tons or more The United States has 16 such vessels, Japan six. France seven and Italy four Great Britain has no first line battleships under construction. while the United LSaJes has II. SJapan seven, France four aui Italy four
 The British navy. pioneer in the development of the battle cruiser type, still retains an easy advantaSe in this generally regarded indiSpens- able class of modern ships of vsc with six first line battle cruisers and four others ClasSed as second line. The United States has none compiet ed and six under construction, Japan four in service and eighN projected, i France and Italy have no battle cruis CTS built or building.
 Tn conn rha ffulrRS a in rFUlS- CT strength, rigid qualifications were laid down for this typeAof vessel The requirements for first line cruisers were declared to be large fast crUis- 1 CTS launched since January l. 1901. l capable of keeping station with the battle fleet Neither the United ] States Japan. France nor Italy have been able to meet the requirements. Great Britain is credit with two sucGl vessels in service. none under -- con- struction and 20 in the second line while the United States has none un- der construction and 10 in the sec ond line. Neither Japan, France nor Italy has any such cruisers built or building.
 U. s. Is Poor Third
 In light cruiser strength Great Bri- tain leads all other nations Dy a large margin with Japan second and the United States a poor third. The Bri- tish navy has +4 light cruisers m the first line. 24 in the second line and five under construction. Japan has six such vessels in service and nine under construction while the United States has three ships built as scout cruisers designated as light crusi- CTS" of the second line and ten light cruisers Of the Omaha class for con struction. France has four first line light cruisers in service and six building and Italy five in service and none building Several of the French and Italan ships were obtained from the former German navy.
 Great Britain is shown to be the only nation with any destroyer lead CTS. having 24 such vessels with a speed of 30 knots and up and a mini mum displacement of 1900 tons and another building Neither Japan nor the United States has any destroyer leaders under construction while France has 12 building and Italy five.
 Despite the United States "grest war time destroyer building program"