FRANCE' S SHIPPING INCREASING THE TONNAGE.
- M PARIS, July 4. The Under-Secretary to the Navy states that France had 2,500,000 tons of mercantile shipping before the Avar; 560,000 tons have been lost, of Avhich 460,000 -were submarined. France has built 120,000 tons during the war : has captured 150,000 tons, and purchased 413,000 tons. Therefore, she has increased her tonnage by 120.000 tons, apart from the 140,000 being built, and the 63,000, tons hoav .being purchased iv different parts of. 'the Avorld. Britain is supplying iron plates for the new constructions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14347, 12 July 1917, Page 5
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