DEFENCE MEASURES
NEW DECREES ISSUED
(Received May 22, 2 p.m.)
LONDON. May 21
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that nine new decrees include an increase in the personnel of the Fleet to 82,500 in the current year and 85,000 in 1940, the modernising of the fortifications in Algeria, and the furnishing of the colonies with fuel oil stores.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 10
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61DEFENCE MEASURES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 10
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