GERMAN NAVAL BUILDING
♦ STETTIN SHIPYARDS TO BE REOPENED MANY NEW SUBMARINES PLANNED ADHERENCE TO AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 18, 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. Vice-Admiral Guse, Chief of Staff of the Naval War Command, has announced that Germany is reopening the Vulkan shipyards at Stettin, which were closed under the Treaty of Versailles. It is intended to build 31 submarines, making 81 submarines, four battleships, and two aircraft carriers under construction, also one heavy cruiser and five light cruisers, 10 destroyers, four torpedo boats, 11 torpedo carriers, and 54 minesweepers. The “Daily Telegraph” says that Vice-Admiral Guse’s announcement confirms that Germany is keeping strictly to the terms of the BritishGerman Naval Agreement. The current programme is under the ratio for all categories except submarines.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 19 August 1938, Page 13
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