FOUR NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIPS
TWO WILL SOON BE READY FOR SERVICE PARIS. April 21. The French Naval Minister, M. Cesar Campinchi, stated that the 35,-000-ton warships Richelieu and Jean Bart would shortly be ready for ser“We are 10 months ahead of the normal construction time for the Jean Bart,” ho said. “Construction on two other 35,000-ton ships is making rapin headway. We will never hand over the smallest part of the Empire and therefore must have very strong seapower.” The German High Command reported that a U-boat sank a Polish destroyer north-east of the Shetlands.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 94, 23 April 1940, Page 5
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