France, with only seven battleships and most of them ancient, will be at a definite disadvantage in the new European naval alignment, experts believed. France must pro. tect both her Atlantic coast and her Mediterranean route to her African colonies with a fleet less modern than Italy's on completion of present construction plans, it was pointed out. Italy's necessity of protecting her own sea lanes to Ethiopia, how-ber, was believed to offset partially her apparent naval supremacy over France.—United Press,
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