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Germany Laying Down Two New Ships. FORTY-EIGHT WARSHIPS TO BE LAUNCHED THIS YEAR. Press Association —Copyright, London, Jan. 24. The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent learns that Germany will shortly lay down two new battleships of at least 26,000 tons, with nine heavy guns apiece, and an aircraft-carrier of 20,009 tons, in addition to the 112,000 tons of warships now being constructed. Germany will launch during the next six months two 26,000 tons battleships, two 10,000 ton armoured cruisers, 16 1625 ton destroyers. IS 260 ton submarines and 10 600, ton sloops. The naval commander-in-chief is responsible solely to Herr Hitler for the chief naval station at Kiel, the second naval base at Wilhelmshaven and all North Sea and Baltic fortifications. The naval personnel of 34,000 is still growing and the present rate of progress has assured Germany of attaining the maximum agreed naval strength, namely 35 per’cent, of Britain’s, by 1942.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 40, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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