FRENCH NAVY
CUT IN VOTE; (United PreHS Association —By Electric , ' Telegraph—Copyright. ] PARIS, June 18. The Chamber of Deputies. has adopted, by 410' votes to 168,. the estimates for the 1931-32 naval programme. The 'Government has accepted an amendment halving the proposed amount of credit and suspending the layout down of a proposed battleship of 23,000 tons. :'M. Paul Boncour, on behalf of the Socialists, criticised the proposal for a battleship. .'He. said that Prance need not be afraid because Germany has launched the Deutschland. Italy, could build a .23,000 tenner if France did, and Italy could say that she was responding to France’s initiative, and that France would be unable to take a bold Hne. at the Disarmament Con- ' ference i( weighed down by a new battleship. • . i The Minister, ,M. Dumont, said that the adoption of the battleship would not limit the‘possibilities of discussion on disarmament. M. Herriott has resigned the leadership of the 'Radical Socialists owing to forty of his followers voting: against the .Government on the Naval Bdl; contrary to his instructions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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