ITALIAN FLEET AT SEA
REPARATION SHIPS INCLUDED (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. The Rome correspondent of ‘•The Times’’ says that speculation has been aroused by the news that the Italian Fleet put to sea from Taranto on Tuesday to carry out manoeuvres in the lonian Sea. The chief comment centres on the reported presence in the fleet of one cruiser, live destroyers and one or more submarines, all of which are due to be placed at the disposal of the Allies under the Italian peace treaty. Why, it is being asked, has Italy chosen to carry out her first naval manoeuvres since the war just before the ratification of a treaty which will deprive her of several of the best ships now at sea?
Admiral Maugeri, Chief of the Naval General Staff, has replied that the present manoeuvres have no particular strategical significance, and that in any cease the peace treaty has not. yet been ratified by the. Constituent Assembly and, therefore, Italy still retains her fleet.
He added that the Italian naval problem “depended upon geography and not politics,” and although Italy had relinquished the waging of war as a policy she could not relinquish defence, for which all her naval resources, small as they were, must be prepared to the utmost.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 159, 18 April 1947, Page 3
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