Rome, June 19.
France's naval policy was vigorously attacked in an "inspired" article published to-day in "Giornale Italia," influential Fascist news-[paper edited by Dr. Virginia Gayda.
Especially does "Giornale d'Italia" Jattack a statement made on Wed-Inesday by 3, Danielou in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. to construct a 23,000 ton cruiser because Italy and Germany are inthe construction of pocket" battleships.
"The statement of says "Giornale d'ltalia,' falsification of past and present facts." The newspaper adds that the French are exaggerating the danger of German "pocket" battleships in order to agitate public opinion direction favouring a general Several classes of French cruisers, Giornale d'ltalia insists, are far superior to the "pocket" battleships jin both speed and gun power—United Press.
Berlin, June 19.
The Minister of Defence has issued a statement correcting alleg-Jed inaccuracies in the speech of the French Minister of the Navy, Dumont, on the occasion of the French Chamber's debate on the naval estimates, The Minister had stated that Ger-Jmany's building programme provided for the construction between this Fear and 1935 of eight battlecruisfers and eight light cruisers and [Fi protested against this programme being '@ breach. of the "Vers 3
treaty.
The German Ministry of Defence row states that it is absolutely un: able to grasp how any "oficial per son. could. make such unfounded allegations, and points out that the French Government must know pet fectly well that the German naval construction programme is restricted fo. the replacement of "four old battleships and does not include one single light cruiser and that. far: thermore. in the interval between Dattes Germany could now and 1995 only tio of those four I actually taken in. hard.—Trans-Ocean "Kup Paris, June 19, Former Premier Herriot will, is_reported, shortly give up. th leadership of the Radical Socialist Party, the strongest group in the Chamber, because 40. members -of the party voted against his advice in yesterday's division on. the Government's" naval programme wich the former Premier desired to Trars-Ocean Kuo Min, supported by his. party.—
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