ASSISTING ALLIES
French Naval Ships And Men LONDON, October 5. About 300,000 tons of naval shipping; — half of France’s pre-war fleet—and 53,♦lOO French naval officers and ratings are now fighting with the Allies, Reuter’s Algiers correspondent reports. Admiral Andre le Monnier, chief of staff of the French Navy, revealed this at a Press , conference.
He added that there was a possibility that a reconstituted French Navy might take over units of the Italian Navy. It was a diplomatic question, but it was clearly in the Allied interests to keep the maximum of trained French naval personnel afloat.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 6
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97ASSISTING ALLIES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 6
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