According to a statement in a Frenoh journal, what tho American yards supplied $0 France was not snips but "sabots"— Wooden shoes. The French Parliamentary Moro&ani Nayy Committee haa received evidence according to which not one of the
82 ships, including 40 sohooncrs, built by the United States for the French Government, at a coat of 80.000,000 dollars, is now in a fit state for navigation purposes, tho wood used in their construction having been insufficiently seasoned.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3455, 1 June 1920, Page 50
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