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France Builds Larger Warships

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 5.

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France Builds Larger Warships

FRANCE has six large battle-ships in course of construction at the present time, all of great displacement. Admiral Fournier advocated large flotillas of torpedo-boats and submarines as better suited to the defensive purposes of France, but the government officials take to the larger ships. It is a constant strife among the "great powers" to keep up to the standard in death-dealing military and naval inventions.