FRENCH NAVY
TWO NEW CRUISERS. [United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ] PARIS, Maid, 21. M. Durmont, French Minister of Marine, presented the Naval Construction Bill, which previously had been postponed owing to the Anglo-French negotiations. The Bill provides for the laying down of forty-five thousand tonnage, including a twenty-three-thousand ton cruiser mounting eleven point nine guns; also two well protected units of seven thousand five hundred tons, with five inch guns, with a scout flotilla leader. BRITISH BATTLESHIPS. HUGE TORPEDO TUBES. LONDON. March 21. The “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent reveals that the battleships Nelson and Rodney are each being fitted with two tidies for discharging twenty-four inch torpedoes, which will lie the largest in the world.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1931, Page 6
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