THE FRENCH NAVY
PROPOSED BATTLESHIP LAYING DOWN SUSPENDED. PARIS, June IS. (Received Juno 19, at 10 p.m.) The Chamber of Deputies adopted, by 410 votes to 168, the estimates for the 193132 naval programme, the Government accepting ah amendment halving the proposed credit and suspending the laying down of the proposed battleship of 23,000 tons. M. Paul lloncour, on behalf of the Socialists, criticised the He said that France need not be afraid because Germany launched the Deutschland. Italy could build a 23,000-ton vessel, saying she was responding to France’s Initiative, and Franco would be unable in take a bold line at the Disarmament Conference if she was weighed down by the battleship. The Minister (M. Dumont) said that the building of the battleship would not limit the possibilities of a discussion on disarmament. M. .Herriott resigned the leadership of the Radical Socialists owing to 40 of his followers voting against the Government on the Bill, contrary to his instructions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21366, 20 June 1931, Page 11
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