NAVAL BUILDING
ITALIAN AND GERMAN SUBMARINES PROGRESS OF REARMAMENT IN BRITAIN. OTHER POWERS OUTPACED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. Brassey’s Naval Annual, published today, says Italy aims at having 124 submarines in commission shortly and Germany 142. Italy is scheduled to have 170 submarines by 1941. Since the revision of the Anglo-Ger-man naval treaty Germany has prepared a programme to build 71 submarines as speedily as possible. Britain has the biggest anti-submarine force (226 ships built and 61 building). Brassey’s Annual shows that the British rearmament is now annually greater than the Italian, German and French combined. Britain’s weakest link is in cruisers, as only 35 have been built since'the war. Nineteen, however, are building, against twelve by Italy and eight by Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 5
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129NAVAL BUILDING Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 5
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