SOVIET NAVY
Increased Strength In The Pacific A WARNING SPEECH More Submarines Than Other Powers Bv Telegrapn.—Press Assn.—Copyright MOSCOW, July 25. In a fighting speech, the Naval Commissar, M. Kusnetsov, emphasized the strengthening of the Pacific fleet, and said it contained over a hundred large ships. The fleet would continue to be enlarged, as restless Far Eastern neighbours needed a lesson to prove the Soviet’s strength. He added that (he Soviet, had more submarines than any other country, and more than Germany and Japan combined. It could build ships equal to the world’s best, and was now laying down more cruisers, destroyers, and larger ships.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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