The first of four aircraft carriers: was launched at Kiel today.
The vessel will have a speed of 32 knots per hour, displaces 19.250 tons, and will be able to carry 40 planes.
Commenting on the launching this ship, the "Nazional Zeitung" asserted that Germany, like Italy, cold have done without such units if} she only wished to rule the air along German coasts.
However, the paper added, the problem should be considered "in the Hight of present conceptions responding to the use of German naval forces in, the free spaces of the Atlantic."
"The alr force, like the navy, must bbe freed from coastal tasks," the' paper continued. "The number of planes
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