Singapore. June 24.
Four hundred motor torpedo-boats. boweded with American aircraft, en-es and capable of more than 50 ets, are being constructed in the shipyards of the Netherlands Indies a recent arrival from the Indies disclosed here.
He declared that there great activity in the Indies shipyards and that a large number of merchant ships are being reconstructed and recon-clitioned for the purpose of providiuz additional shipping to export the large supplies of Indies raw material which have accumulated in godowns throughout the country.—Reuter.
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