TO BUILD SHIPS
SOVIET’S BIG PROGRAMME.
ORDERS TO BE PLACED ABROAD OWN WORKERS TOO SLOW. ■.ii-ed Press Association—By Electric TVleguue Copyriglit.) —United Service). Received 10.19 a.m. to-day. LONDON, July 24. The “Evening News” announces that the Soviet .Govern-memt is launching a gigantic /shipbuilding programme of 171 cargo and passenger vessels of all types and is seeking to place the orders on credits abroad, including Britain and Germany because tlhe Red workers are too slow .and costly. The Soviet’s own construction costs are 150 per cent, higher than those of other European countries.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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92TO BUILD SHIPS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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