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NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME.

EXPENDITURE BY FRANCE.

COVERING 20 YEARS

Electric 'Telegraph—Press Association Copyright.

(Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day, at 10.50 a.m.) Paris, February 12.

Tho Minister of Alarin© is contemplating a new naval programme, covering 20 years, providing a total tonnage of 700,000 of -which 65,000 will be submarines, and 60,000 aeroplane carriers. During th© first year, only light vessels will be built, comprising six cruisers, 35 destroyers ainf 34 submarines.

An appropriation of 2400 million francs will be made to be spent, in eight annual instalments of three hundred million francs.

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Bibliographic details

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 5

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NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 5

NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 5