FRANCE'S REPLY
POCKET BATTLESHIP
BUILDING GREAT CRUISER
NAVAL HOLIDAY ENDS
United Press Association—By Electric Telt-
graph—CopyrigUt. (Received 17th November, 10 a f m.)j LONDON, 16th November.
The "Daily Telegraph's" naval ex« pert says that France's reply to the German pocket battleship is a 26,000 ton cruiser, which is included in'the 1931 programme, instead of th© 23,000,tonner already proposed., The larger size is due to the substitution of nine 13.4 in guns, which are practically equal. to the British 15in.
The new vessel will cost over £6,000,000. Its construction will mark the end of the battleship holiday, which has now lasted nearly nine years, as no vessel over 10,000 tons has been builtjunce the British Nelson and Rodney in 1922.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 10
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