THE GERMAN NAVY
BUILDING PROGRAMME LONDON, January 24. (Deceived January 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent learns that Germany will shortly lay down two new battleships of at least 26,000 tons, with nine heavy guns apiece, aircraft and an aircraft carrier of 20,000 tons, additional to the 112,000 tons of warships now being constructed. Germany will launch during the next six months two 26,000-ton battleships, two 10,000-ton armoured cruisers, 16 1625-ton destroyers, 18 260ton submarines, and 10 600-ton sloops. The naval commander-in-chief is responsible solely to Herr Hitler for the chief naval station at Kiel, the second naval base at Wilhelrashaven and all the North Sea and Baltic fortifications. The naval personnel is 34,000 and still growing. The present rate of progress assures Germany of attaining the maximum agreed naval strength, namely, 35 per cent, of Britain’s, by 1942.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22790, 27 January 1936, Page 9
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