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The experts, while still unable to put forward any agreed

figures. for cruisers, issued on Friday a report in which they recommended that for destroyers the maxi- mum displacement should be 1,850 tons for leaders and 1,500 tons for other destroyers : the gun calibre should be limited to 5 inches : the age for replacement should be sixteen years. For submarines the maximum displace- ment should be 1,800 tons, with guns limited to 5 inches. These figures for displacement are slightly larger than those which the British Admiralty have considered large enough for any needs. This agreement is something to the good, and the efforts to calculate the limits for cruiser classes are not abated.

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