GERMANY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 31 December 1923, Page 5

GERMANY

Building up sea power.

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LONDON, Dec. 28. Mr, Sefton Delroor,. writing in the Nineteenth Century,.points out that the ! ink &ad hardly dried on the Treaty of Versailles when Germany began, with admirable doggedness, to build up her eftd sea power. She started almost from scratch, yet %hree years' work shows £he amazing result of a brand new mercantile fleet of two and three-quarter million tons, or practically half the shipping that Germany possessed in her palmiest days. It is an achievement unparalleled in history. The fleet is splendidly organised and backed by the whole phalanx of Germany's great industrial trusts. Ger- i many will proceed with the construe- I tion of a navy later.