Two More Battleships Likely To Be Built Paris, Feb. 4.
France will join the naval building race.
Immediate work on two 35,000-ton battleships, in addition to the 1938 construction programme, is requested in a report just submitted to the Chamber of Deputies by the Navy Commission.
This, says the report will be France's reply to two similar battleships which are being built in Italy.
France recently completed two 26,000-ton battleships, SPECTAL ro THE "cern?
London, Feb. 3.
The Government's policy over the refusal of workers to load war and other material destined for Japan was questioned in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Liberal member for East Wolverhampton.
Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, replied that such. refusals were a matter for the joint of the industry concerned to consider.
Mr. Mander asked if the workers were not taking a very natural and human action, and doing the thing which the Government. a at eon it his or Mr. Manders duy con
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