NEW SUBMARINES
SEVERAL FOR ITALIAN FLEET RAPID CONSTRUCTION LONDON, Oct. 12, (Received Oct. 12, at 11.30 p.m.) “Italy has laid down no fewer than 20 new submarines since December,” says the Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent. “ They are being constructed with great rapidity. Italy already possesses 88 completed submarines, compared with Britain’s 72, France’s 88, America’s 97, and Japan’s 62. Italian submarine production has averaged a boat every month, a figure no other country has approached. Twenty-eight new destroyers have been begun during the present year and a group of motor torpedo boats with speeds between 45 and 50 kngts.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23321, 13 October 1937, Page 9
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