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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72

Postscript

Postscript.

The latest cablegram that can be noticed here (dated Paris, 16th April) supplies the unexpected information from the French Assembly that the state of the French Navy displays inexcusable negligence in its administration, and eminent disorder; that it is unprepared for war mobilisation; that its torpedo vessels are unseaworthy, the naval stores depleted (as the French Commissariot was in 1870), and that a specially-constructed ironclad is "liable to capsize at the first impact." And further, it is declared, by the same authority, that all the great battle-ships of France are in a similar predicament.