FRENCH NAVY
BUILDING PROGRAMME CREDIT HALVED LAYING DOWN OF NEW BATTLESHIP SUSPENDED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, 18th June. The Chamber of Deputies adopted by 410 votes to 168 the estimates for the 1931-32 naval programme, the Government accepting ail amendment halving the proposed credit and suspending the laying down of a proposed battleship of 23,000 tons. M. Paul Boncour, on behalf of the Socialists, criticised the battleship. He said Franco need not be afraid because Germany had launched the Deutschland. Italy could build a 23,000 tonner saying that she was responding to France’s initiative and France would be unable to take a bold line at the Disarmament Conference if weighed down by a battleship. M. Dumont, Minister of Marine, said that, the adoption of a battleship would not limit the possibilities of a discussion on disarmament. M. Harriott resigned the leadership of the Radical Socialists owing to forty of his followers voting against the Government on the Naval Bill contrary to his instructions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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