Chief efforts were bent towards increasing national production. In the feld of aviation, projects were studied for the establishment of air plants in Canada, because such factories would not only serve to increase production but would be pro-teeted in case of attacks upon Britain herself.
Statistics are kept secret, but it is understood that the present monthly output of aeroplanes in Britain totals some 350 or 400 machines. This is expected to be doubled during the coming year.
With regard to the Navy, known that 21 warships of displacement were launched during 1038 and that the Admiralty has already announced that 4. more would be launched during 1939.
It seems that the Admiralty is bent Jing" formidable tect riers, because although seven are already in service, five others have been laid down in construction yards. Six of the vessels now in service are capable of carrying some forty craft aplece—Havas.
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