FRANCE’S NAVY
CONSTRUCTION BILL PASSED BIG BUILDING PROGRAMME. Pros* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, PARIS, January 15. .(Received January 17, at 1.30 a.m.) The Chamber, without a debate, passed the Naval Construction Bill, which provides for the laying down before Juno 30 of one 10,000-ton cruiser, six 2,400-ton destroyers, and si.v 1,500ton submarines, ns well as a minie-layor and several despatch vessels and tankers. ' M. Leygues stated that no country wanted peace more than Franco did, but she must have ships to defend her interests.—Australian Press AssWation.
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Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 13
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