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GERMANY’S BUILDING PLANS FLEET TO EQUAL ANY IN THE WORLD. ACCORDING TO AMERICAN REPORTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 24. According to confidential reports to the navy, Germany is building up a fleet equal to any in the world, says the correspondent of the United Press news agency. On a ship for ship basis it will, perhaps, be superior. However, it will be inferior to Britain and America in power. Germany is building, or has appropriated for, 51 warships, including five super-dreadnoughts, two aircraft-car-riers, three heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, 12 destroyers and 25 submarines. She has at present five capital ships, six light cruisers, 27 destroyers and 36 submarines, of which two battleships and five destroyers are over age. The new battleships will be of approximately 31,400 tons, but because of the German weight-saving and construction methods, the vessels will be equivalent in size and strength to 40,-000-ton vessels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 7
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