Ottawa, Aug. 20.
Canada has placed orders for a fleet of motor torpedo boats similar to the German E-boats the Naval Ministry announced yesterday.
The mosquito fleet will consist of Powerful little torpedo boats which will be capable of travelling at 50 knots. They are to be placed in service under the Canadian Navy on both coasts of Canada, the Ministry said.
The Canadian Navy at present is six times greater in tonnage than it was one year ago, the Ministry revealed, The Navy consists of 113 vessels, with 95 additional keels laid down, the announcement disclosed.
Canada's first Naval Minister, Mr. Angus L. MacDonald, in his first press conference yesterday, announced that Canada and the United States had exchanged naval military attaches.
Reporters asked Mr. MacDonald whether United States destroyers were implied by the words "material aid" for Canada mentioned in the Ogdensburg declaration forming a joint permanent board of defence between the United States and Canada.
Mr. MacDonald said that such could not necessarily be assumed. He said that the naval attaches would attempt to co-ordinate certain questions, but no specific plans could be discussed until staff conversations will have started.—United Press.
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