FRANCO-ITALIAN RIVALRY
BIG SHIP-BUILDING PROGRAMMES.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS.
By' Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, February 5.
Replying to a question in the House of Commons by Sir Frederick Hall, who asked if it was not a fact that Ikance and Italy had increased their shipbuilding programmes while Britain was reducing hers, Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, said the Government was doing its best to get France and Italy to adhere to the principal of limitation. If unable to do so it would have to reconsider the position. Mr.: Alexander previously stated that the total tonnage under construction in the British Commonwealth of Nations was 45,145. The corresponding figure in France was 100,584 tons, and in Italy 100,177 tons, excluding respectively 35,318 and 2,550 tons of vessels of the 1930 programme believed not yet to be ordered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1931, Page 14
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