THE FRENCH NAVY.
BIG INCREJASE PRUPOSED. .
(Progs Assn,— rpy 4 Telegraph— Gopyi'ight) (Received June 9, 8;50 a,m.) , r . PA;Rre, June U. ' Tlie Navf Council has divided that forty-five laattleships 7 will form tho fighting line the French navy, tho life, of a . battleship being twenty : years. '•; The necessary construe tion to effect, this will involve the spending of one/ hundred and twenty million .sterling;]!^ ten years. j . In. November^ 19QP, the numhw of French battlcßhips was 27, six (were being built, and a like • ri\imber . proje^ted .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11872, 9 June 1909, Page 5
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86THE FRENCH NAVY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11872, 9 June 1909, Page 5
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