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Wednesday 25 April 2018

French navy needed more money to modernize the artillery according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1909-1910 no. 8

An item referred to the supplementary French navy budget for 1909 which described the large expenses needed to modernize the artillery of the fleet to an up to date level. Needed was 221 million francs over a period of 6 years, meaning around 96 million more as was approved for the artillery in the annual budgets.