ITALIAN NAVY
NEW VESSELS ! BUILDING WITH GREAT RAPIDITY LONDON, October 12. Italy has laid down no fewer than 20 new submarines since December, says the "Daily Telegraph's" naval correspondent. They are being constructed with great rapidity. Italy already possesses 88 completed submarines, compared with Britain's 72, France's 88, 97 in the United States, and Japan's 62. v Italian submarine production has averaged a ship every month, a figure no other country has approached. Twenty-eight new destroyers have been begun during the present year, and also a group of motor torpedoboats with speeds of between 45 and 50 knots.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 11
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