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HALF OF FRENCH PRE-WAR FLEET STATEMENT BY CH l EF-OF-STAFF. QUESTION OF TAKING OVER ITALIAN UNITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 5. About 300,000 tons of naval shipping —half of France’s pre-war fleet—and 53,000 French naval officers and ratings are now fighting with the Allies, Reuter's Algiers correspondent reports. Admiral Andre Lemonnier, Chief of Staff of the French Navy, revealed this at a Press conference. He added that there was a possibility that reconstructed units of the French Navy might take over units of the Italian Navy. ' It was a diplomatic question, but it was clearly in the Allied interests to keep a maximum of trained naval personnel afloat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 4
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