FRENCH NAVAL PLANS
CONSTRUCTION OF CAPITAL SHIPS PROBABLY SUPER-DREAD-NOUGHTS (United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph Copyright! LONDON, March 2. The French Government is expected to prepare for the early construction of a capital ship of 35,000 tons in addition to the two battle-cruisers now being constructed, says the Paris correspondent of the Times. Permission may he sought to build a second capital ship in 1837. The decision results from Italy persisting in the construction of two 25,000-ton ships and American and Japanese shipbuilding activity. The new French capital ships will probably he super dreadnoughts, resembling the Rodney, replacing the obsolete Jeanbart and Courbet.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 March 1935, Page 5
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