FRENCH FLEET
BEST UNITS CONCENTRATED AT TOULON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 17. The most seaworthy units of the French fleet, including the battleships Dunkerque, Strasbourg and Provence and the heavy cruisers Algerie, Colbert, Foch and Dupleix, and the seaplane tender Commandant Teste, are concentrated at Toulon, says the “Daily Telegraph.” The Provence and the Dunkerque were both badly damagec by a British squadron at Oran in July, 1940, and the Dunkerque is believed to be still under repair. The battleship Richelieu is lying crippled at Dakar, where there are also three cruisers. The Richelieu’s sister-ship, the Jean Bart, incomplete, and without' her main armament, is at Casablanca. The aircraft-carrier Bearn, the light cruisers Emile Berlin and Jeanne d’Arc are believed to be under American surveillance at Martinique and Guadelupe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 4
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