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Show FRANCE IS OUT OF BIG NAVY CONTEST Retains Only Enough Ships ! to Prptect Holding I ! By MILTON BRONNER. ' M jNTm N, Miir.-ii 11- - t'uii' e, secure from the Cermau menace, fearing no !lri'ii.h or AmerirriM sggrension. and resU r k 'he i n-fh-iiv of Ihe greHteMl 'iicinv. is contenting itself with a navy ecfiV.ein only to protect Its exists aid t ! freedom of otrimun t at iei; with ( Af ic.iii domtiiiors. Cnpitsl ship construction has lieeu sopted. the biggest Premh ships leiiig j-.iMto-ton drea.lt.Obghts. completed s,x car ago. , . , I The rent of the fleet Is made F 1 armor -d r neern. ;readt.ough;. 0 de-; de-; wtrr T. torjieilo boats and Iu sul- . mar i.cc. . ' ,;tntiat Ieve-j. master m'rd of the ' 1 r. in h n,;:w m il author of famous Urtksj ! o-i Tiilegv. irpMoUls lhe.e . So preilii't Inidicil eoar-tej hi nav.il warfare. I " iread iniurhf b:. .e l-en outmoved. . i Heveluv savf-, and adv.w.Te- the con-fruc- . i t on of i.unTri'.N P';tunarm.-s. limti!i g plants, fast -K-H cru.se.- aid 0eiro-, 1 ers. ! The chairmmi of the parliamentary finance committee advocates a defensive I fVei of SoO submarine. i Me-.inlime, as an economic move, t hr-e o: Uittlenhips haxe been rO'iOcnmed. big g is have leen removed from t hre I ..Thers and iwentv-two destroyers attd . foriv-two submarines have been put out of commission. Itriaiid s n-w naval secretary says , Krance will sail fwer ships, but the wt'l be fullv armed and equipped j Krance. this year, is spends fTS.OOO.- j francs on the navy, of wlmh a quar- , ter of a billion is for new ship and -;.tui,0.nMj for aviation. New idup are i lo' le aix cruisers, twelve ds'roers and J le!e ojhmannes. The French are testing the daf gers off r.tt- k upon ships fr-m airplanes oy us- irg a " jrr noer d A imrisn api'a( sni ' in a target. They expect to learn bow io protect b:g ship deck from airplane torpedoes. Meantime hev are keeping up their aviation forces tetter than any of their aliiea, with a personnel Uggcr than lin-tam's. |