FRANCE'S MERCHANT FLEET.
BIG BUTLDrNG PROGRAMME. DOtTBLTNG PHE-WAR TOIfNAGE. (Received 10.33 a.m. i LOKBOX, July 2r>. The Government has ordered 509,000 tons of shipping, while private linns are oonstruetinjr 1,015,000 tons, thus, restoring the m«*rchant tltwt to it-i pre-war footing. The Minister of Transport says that France must raise her merchant fleet to 5,000.000 tons. He will shortly introduce a bill which will give France a fleet twice a* large as her pre-war tonnage, to be. constructed in national shipyards, ocoupying three years. — A. and NJZ. Cable.J
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 176, 26 July 1919, Page 7
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87FRANCE'S MERCHANT FLEET. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 176, 26 July 1919, Page 7
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