DEFENCE MEASURES.
AMERICAN ORDERS DELAYED
Received August 21, 11.5 a.m. OTTAWA, Aug. 20. The Naval Ministry announces that it has placed orders for a fleet of motor torpedo-boats similar to the German E-boats. They will be capable of 50 knots per hour and could bo used on both coasts. It is also revealed that the Navy is six times greater than last year. At present it consists of 113 vessels with 95 additional keels laid. Washington reports that the army and navy recently have been unable to place contracts for 5725 aeroplanes, also guns /or 28; destroyers, because manufacturers objected to limitations on profits. Several members of the Appropriations Committee expressed the opinion that the Government should conscript industry. Evidence given to the committee by navy chiefs indicated that the manufacturers preferred business with the British Purchasing Commission in which, they were not bound by limitations.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 225, 21 August 1940, Page 7
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