FRANCE'S AID TO TRADE.
AUXILIARY CRUISERS
[By Electric Telegraph—CoprßioHT.
(Feb Press Association.) Pjuris, December 25. The Government proposed to the Chamber a subsidy of £20,000,000, spread over 25 years, to the Messageries Maritimes Company and the Societe d'Etudes de Navigation, for mail and other services in the Far East, Australia, East Africa, Brazil, and the River Plate, the bulk to be devoted to the construction of nineteen knot steamers, convertible into auxiliary cruisers.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10959, 27 December 1911, Page 5
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73FRANCE'S AID TO TRADE. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10959, 27 December 1911, Page 5
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