The French Government are determined to ensure the protection of their "imperial roads on the seas and are assigning eighty per cent. of their naval credits towards new construction projects which will maintain French communication lines.
M. Cesar Campinchi, Navy Minister, made this declaration before the Military Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in a speech this afternoon.
He added that the French Navy will total more than 700,000 tons of shipping in 1942. He revealed that an aircraft-carrier, the Joffre, has been in the construction yards since November 22 this year.—Havas.
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