FRENCH NAVY.
EXTENSIVE BUILDING OPERA-
TIONS
(ar CAMS —FBKBS ABIOCUTIO*—COPIWOHT.) ("THE times.")
LONDON, -January 4
The Paris correspondent of "The Times'' says that 1927 was a decisive year for the Trench Navy. Twentyfive ships, including submarines, were commissioned and twenty-four laid down. Credits were voted for nineteen of these, and three air squadrons were created. The cost of the new construction amounted to £10,728,000 in 1928, against £2,880,000 in 1924. The first two complete series of post-war vessels will be ready for service in 1932, including nine cruisers, twenty-one flotilla leaders, thirty-six destroyers, forty-eight submarines, and' numerous auxiliaries.
TwO million pounds a year will be spent to provide oil storage at Brest and Toulon. The existing eighteen air squadrons will have increased to fifty by 1938.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19201, 6 January 1928, Page 7
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