NAVAL BUILDING
Feverish Italian Activity SUBMARINE_PRODUCTION A BOAT EVERY MONTH 28 NEW DESTROYERS Heceivcd Oct. 12, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 12. Italy has laid down no fewer than 20 new submarines since December, says the Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent. They are being constructed with great rapidity. Italy already possesses 88 completed submarines, compared with Britain’s 72, France’s 88, the U.S.A.’s 97, and Japan’s 62. The Italian submarine production has averaged a boat every month, a figure no other country has approached. Twenty-eight new destroyers have been begun during the present year, and also a group of motor torpedo-boats with speeds between 45 and 50 knots an hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 7
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