GERMANY'S NAVY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 10

GERMANY'S NAVY

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION

KEELS GOING DOWN

(Received January 2s, 1.40 p.nr}

LONDON, January 24.

The "Daily Telegraph's" naval co*» respondent learns that Germany'^is shortly laying the keels of two.new battleships of at least 26,000 tons ;displacement and carrying nine heavy guns, and an aircraft carrier of 20,000 tons, in addition to the 112,000 tons;Of warships now in course of construe* Germany is to launch during th« next half-year two 28,000-ton battleships, two 10,000-ton armoured ; cruisers, sixteen 1625-ton destroyers,: eight* een 260-ton submarines, and ten 600* ton sloops. _ .\'~ The naval commander-in-cmei .ii responsible solely to Hitler. The chief naval statidh'is at Kiel, There is a second naval base at Wfl* helmshaven and all the North Sea and Baltic coasts carry fortifications.' The naval personnel is 34,000 and it is still increasing. The present rate of progress assures Germany attaining ' th* maximum agreed naval strength, naniely 35 per cent, of Britain's strength, by 1942. . :■.. ,