GREAT NAVAL BASE
CREATION BY FRANCE AND BELGIUM REPORTED ABLE TO COMMAND NORTH SEA London, Alarch 18. The “Daily Alail’s” Brussels Verrespondent supplies the Paris newspaper “Humanite” with a scare story. Ho asserts that Franco, which is associated with Belgium by a military convention, is behind tho creation of a formidable naval base on the Belgian coast, able to command the North Sea and threaten tho English const. Tho abandoned German floating docks, submarine shelters, and other naval defences at Zeebrugge have been tak-n over by tho Government with a view to repairing and strengthening them. Big barracks, fortifications, and munition depots are being built,. and the Government will construct a giant wireless station at Ruys-seledo, near Bruges.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 20 March 1924, Page 7
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