THE SOVIET FLEET.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE. FIVE YEARS’ RECORD EXCEEDED (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.1.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, May 17. At the conclusion of a week’s manoeuvres the Baltic Fleet is off Kronstadt. It is announced that numerous new warships of an undisclosed tonnage class, completed in the past winter, took part, and that the new tonnage of the five Soviet Fleets—Northern, Baltic,, Black Sea, Pacific and Riverlaunched in 1938, exceeded by 400 per cent, the maximum tonnage construct-, ed in any previous fiv’e years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 183, 18 May 1939, Page 5
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