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Show IErance's Share Five Cruisers Hand Ten Destroyers, Half ' German, Half Austrian : PaSriS, April 6, (Freuch "Wireless i Service.) Particulars of the distribution distribu-tion of enemy warships among the allied al-lied countries have just been published here. France's share, which is 10 per cent of all the tonnage of all captured ejieniy ships with the exception of submarines, sub-marines, represents 92,000 tons, hsilf of" which is in German ships and Iho remainder in Austrian vessels. Flve cruisers and'ten destroyers are allotted to1 France and the same number num-ber of cruisers and destroyers to Italy. Prance will receive the cruiser Bmden. k Forty submarines now in French ports 1 also are allotted to France and of these ten may be put into service. France is the only power to which the privilege of using captured submarines sub-marines has been granted. Paul BIgnon, under-secretary of ( state for the mercantile marine, declares de-clares that Germany, in abandoning her claim to the 200,000 tons of shipping ship-ping which France urgently requested, request-ed, showed great consideration and that France should be grateful |