FRENCH NAVAL PLANS
(Own Correspondent—Bv Air Mail.) PARIS, Nov. 11. France is to spend £12,310,000 on next year’s naval building programme, lhis was revealed in tho Budget proposals for 1937, copies of which were distributed in the Chamber to-day. The 1936 and preceding naval programmes had for their objects the building of four new battleships to be ready for sea by 1910 and three other battleships of the Brctagn type. The 1937 programme, it is announced, will consist of: 1 cruiser of 8000 tons, 2 torpedo boats of the Hardi class, 4 light torpedo boats, and 5 submarines. The submarines will represent a tonnage equivalent to that provided for in the 1922 program mo. In addition there will be built 26 auxiliary craft of a total tonnage of about 13,000. They will consist of scouts, minesweepers, supply and repair ships, destined to protect naval ports and merchant shipping and to assist the seaplane service in coast defence. A 4600-ton oil tanker will also be built. France is, further, to spend £2.000,000 on new landing grounds.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 12
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