NAVY OF GERMANY
AGREEMENT /WITH BRJTAIN i BUILDING PROGRAMME British "Wireless LONDON, Feb. 2 An agreed announcement was issued this evening both in London and in Berlin concerning Germany's notification in December of her intention to avail herself of certain rights under the naval agreement with Britain. The announcement states that after friendly discussions in Berlin concerning certain questions the 'German Government agreed to furnish the British Government with a written statement of its intentions. According to that statement Germany will progressively increase her submarine tonnage up to parity with that of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, beginning in 1939, and continuing until the treaty limit is reached. Germany will also arm two cruisers now being constructed in such a manner as to change them to A class cruisers. In so doing she exercises the right to which she is entitled by she treaty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 15
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147NAVY OF GERMANY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 15
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