Meanwhile, the Navy Department has announced that the first eight fof the 80 destroyers for Britain are at Boston and should be ready for delivery by next Friday. They. will be sent to Canada with their present crews, there to be taken over by British seamen. Other destroyers will be ready when requested and Will be in "operating condition It was also announced at Washington that Admiral Harold R. Stark.
Chief of Naval Operations, had fulfilled the legal requirements for disposing of the destroyers by certifying that release of the vessels and the acquisition of defence bases would strengthen rather than impair the na= tion's defences.
The Navy Department stated that the destroyers represented a current value of approximately $85,000,000 rected with the greatest possible Pca ce cer
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