FRENCH MERCHANT SERVICE.
GREAT BUILDING PROGRAMME.
PRE-WAR FLEET TO BE DOUBLED.
( Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,
mv n Pans > July 25. lhe. (sfovernment Ims ordered 509.000 tons of shipping and private firms are constructing 1,015,000 tons, thus restoring the French merchant fleet to its pre-war footing. The Minister of Transport says France must raise her merchant fleet to five t^ S/ Ho, *ill shortly introduce a Bill which will give France a fleet twice as large as the pre-war one It i constructed' at national shipyards, the operations occupviag three years. "
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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 5
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91FRENCH MERCHANT SERVICE. Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 5
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