POLICY CHANGED
FRENCH NAVAL POWER
RELIANCE ON BIG SHIPS
BACKBONE OF THE FLEET
TREATY NOT PERMANENT
MARINE COUNCIL DECREE
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 9.50 p.m. Londop, April 9. An important change in the French naval policy is announced by Mr, Hector Bywater, the Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent. The Supreme Council of Marine has decreed that heavy capital ships will form the backbone of the fleet in future.
Consequent upon the decision it has been intimated to the other Powers that France cannot permanently accept the capital ship ratio allotted by the Washington Treaty,
The' French navy has become definitely battleship minded. It no longer pins its faith in submarines and light surface craft, of which a large number has been built since the war.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 7
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