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GERMANY’S EXPANSION PROGRAMME SUBMARINES TO NUMBER EIGHTY-ONE. REOPENING OF CLOSED SHIPYARD. V (Recd This Day, 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 17. Vice-Admiral Guse, Chief of Staff of the Naval Wai- Command, has announced that Germany is reopening the Vulkan shipyards at Stettin, which were closed under the Treaty of Vel-sailles. It is intended to build 31 submarines, making a total of 81. Four battleships and two aircraft carriers are under construction, also one heavy and five light cruisers, ten destroyers, four torpedo boats, eleven torpedo carriers and fifty-four mine-sweepers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 7
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90NAVAL STRENGTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 7
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