The Archive · 1940

Britain's Ship a Week

According to the pamphlet Great Britain has launched a tremendous naval programme to meet require: ments of the war and during 1940, one warship a week will slide down the ways of English shipyards Tt was added that Britain has completed her powerful naval base a Singapore after years of labour and fat an enormous "expense. She also has been studying the possibilities of new route from Europe to the Far East via Cape Horn. These, the indications of presi Oriental waters.

With reference to the French the pamphlet pointed out that augmenting its naval order to compete with Italian fects. Franct has no intention, and does not have the naval strength, to defend French Techn sen interns ort Asia continent the pamphlet corns mented.—Domel.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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