Paris, March 14.
Referring to the operations in the east the naval correspondent of "The Times" eulogizing the French Navy, notes the great improvement in the capacity for construction of men-of-war. Most of the recent powerful battleships of the Jean Bart type took only three years to construct. France was able to front the new Austrian Dreadnought division with a superior force which she could not have done had not the naval programmes for 1910 and 1911 been carried throu, h with such despatch.
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