NAVAL VESSELS FOR BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20789, 24 February 1933, Page 11

NAVAL VESSELS FOR BRITAIN.

ORDERS STILL TO BE PLACED. (IMTIS.B OttlClAL KIUUI1) (Received February 23, 8.10 p.m.) 11TJGBY, February 22. Answering a question in the House of Commons, Sir Bolton Eyroa-Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that orders for the shipbuilding programme of 1933 had not yet been completely placed. Contracts for hulls and machinery to an approximate value of £4,500,000 had been placed with various firms. Apart from contracts for gun mountings and armaments, there remained to be ordered the hull of the cruiser Apollo, one destroyer, a depot ship, two sloops, three submarines, and small craft. Of these, the Apollo, two sloops, and one submarine- would be dockyard-built. Tho order for them would not be placed before , the end of March. Asked whether this programme related to the Government's proposals at Geneva, ho replied: ''Yes, very precisely." SNOW FALLS HEAVILY IN ENGLAND. ♦ (saiTisn omcui" wireless.) (Received February 23, 7.16 p.m.) RUGBY, February 22. More snow foil in.England to-day, the storms being particularly heavy in parts of Kent and the North of England. There were drifts six feet deep in Cleveland and South Durham, while some country roads in the north were under two feet of snow. ' VISIT TO SMITHFIELD. ARGENTINE TRADE MISSION. (British omciAL WIRH-iSS.) (Received February 23, 8.10 p.m.) RUGBY, February 22. ' Dr. Julio Roca, the leader, and other members of the Argentine Trade Mission made a tour of London's great meat market at Smithfield,