The Archive · 1939

Submarine Building

Paris, Apr. 13. ix announced from Rome, accord ing to the first official information on the German naval constructions for the year 1920-40 as published by the allan navy. department's annual survey, that Germany intends to con-Struct 28 submarines during the coming twelve months. These under water craft would be numbered U-72

Among these submarines, leven will be armed with 130. millimetre Runs and seventeen with 188 milli metre. guns.

The completion of this new programme would bring Germany's submarine. tonnage to parity with Britain's. Tt was also revealed that the German "battleship at present under construction and: known provi-Sionally as the "H' will displace 40,000

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