SMALLER NAVIES
BRITAIN MAKING AN EFFORT. ATTITUDE OF POWERS. (United Press Association—By Eisetrio Telegraph Copyright.) i LONDON, Feb. 5. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Frederick Hall (COll- - who asked it it were not a fact that France and Italy had increased their shipbuilding programmes while Britain was reducing hers. Air. A. V. Alexander. First Lord of the Admiralty, said the Government was doing its best to get France and , Italy to adhere to the principle of limitation.
If Britain was enable to do so. she would have to reconsider the position. Mr Alexander previously stated that the total tonnage under construction in the British Commonwealth of Nations was 1(1,145 tons. The corresponding figure in France was 100,684 tons, and Italy 100,777 tons, excluding 35,31.8 aud 32,550 tons respectively of vessels in the 1930 programme believed not yet ordered.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 February 1931, Page 8
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