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Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 28, 27 October 1945, Page 7

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French Request For German Warships

RUSSIA’S DEMANDS IN INDUSTRY (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received October 26, 7.45 p.m.) PARIS, October 26. A Foreign .Ministry spokesman said the French Government is much concerned in having received no reply to a request for a portion of the German Fleet in part compensation for French naval losses during the war. The demand was a very modest one. France asked for six torpedo-boat destroyers, six torpedo-boats, and six submarines, also three cargo vessels and three submarine supply ships, making a total of 30,990 tons, while the total still left to the German Fleet is 141,000 tons, ineluding 111 submarines. The spokesman again raised the contention which France has been consistently putting forward in Berlin and, recently at the London Conference, namely, that the Rhineland and Westphalia should be separated from the rest of Germany. . , A secret list of 40 German industrial plants in western Germany, .which the Russian Government is seeking to remove to Russia as reparations, includes a high percentage of the most vital factories, says Reuters’ 'correspondent in Stuttgart. It is learned that the list includes both the Krupp and the Hermann Goering works, and it is thought that two big I.G. Farben chemical plants and three shipyards, among them the Blohm and Voss yards, are included. Over halt the listed’ plants are located in the British zone. The correspondent thinks that a debate on the demands, at the highest level, is .inevitable. The Potsdam Agreement gives Russia 25 per cent, of surplus plants from the western zones, but the removal of those sought would strip Germany -of industries which are considered so essential for. subsistence that they have been repaired and reopened for operation.