BREAKING UP THE HUN FLEET
TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN TWO YEARS DISTRIBUTION OF THE WARSHIPS By Telecrapi—Press Assoclatloa-^'l&yrtehS Paris, November 30. The Supreme Council has decided that the breaking up of the German warships shall begin immediately, and shall be concluded within two years.
One battleship, one light cruiser, and three torpedo boats will bo given to each of the five principal Allies for retention for experimental or propaganda purposes, while Britain, France, Italy, and Japan have agreed to tho distribution of the proceeds of dismantling the balanco among the fivo principal Allies on the basis of their warship losses. The United States has not yet given a decision.
France proposes that all tho enemy submarines should be- broken utx except ten, to bo allotted to France, which alone was unable to build submarines during the war.—Renter.
TROUBLE WITH SCAPA PRISONERS SETTLED BY THEIR APPETITES. London, November 28. Sixteen hundred German naval prisoners from Scapa Flow refused to work at Oswestry camp. The authorities withheld their rations for three days and the prisoners then resumed work.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 December 1919, Page 7
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178BREAKING UP THE HUN FLEET Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 December 1919, Page 7
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