Nations’ Submarines: Britain Leads
(Independent Cable Service). ' (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20.
“Brassey’s Annual,” published today, says that Italy .aims at having | 124 submarines in commission shortly, and Germany 142. Italy is scheduled, to have 170 by 1941. Since revision of the naval treaty between Britain .and Germany, the latter has prepared a programme to build 71 as speedily as possible. , J Britain has the biggest anti-submarine force (226 ships built and 61 building) and “Brassey’s Annual” shows that British rearmament is now annually greater than Italian, German and I French combined.
Britain’s weakest link is cruisers, of which only 35 have been built since the war. Nineteen, however, are building, against 12 by Italy, and eight by Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 21 April 1939, Page 7
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