NAVAL PROGRAMME
FRENCH CHAMBER APPROVES LONDON, 29th December. The French Chamber of Deputies approved of the Government's 1930 naval programme, the total expenditure of which will be £31,464,000, an increase of £1,584,000 over that of last year, states the Paris correspondent of tho "Manchester Guardian." The Chamber also approved of the sehemo for frontier fortifications, which will bo completed in 1935. The latter will involve an expenditure of £23,000,000. The programme includes £3,000,000 for anti-aircraft, and the seventh 10,000-ton cruisor, carrying new devices for self-protection, with a speed of 32 knots, six destroyers, six first-class submarines, a mine-laying submarine, a mine-laying surface ship, a net-laying ship, the first of its kind for the protection of anchored vessels against submarines. ■ j
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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