FRENCH NAVY
ESTIMATES LARGELY INCREASED (Times Cables.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) LONDON, December 8. “The Times’s” Paris correspondent states that the navy estimates, which the Chamber passed almost without discussion, show an increase of nearly £2,252,000, of which new ships account for nearly one million. Coast defence, harbours, and arsenals also show an increase. The Government points out that tne defence of Corsica and Tunisia, is notoriously inadequate; the existing harbours are inadequate, for the new large ships, and the arsenals require modernising. . France does not intend to build the new battleship to which she is entitled under the Washington Treaty. Perhaps she is influenced by Italy s decision not to exercise a similar right. France, in order to attain the present programme, must eventually lay down 90,000 tons of light suiface ships, and 40,000 tons of submarines.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1928, Page 5
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