France building more submarines while battleships were too expensive according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 23 June 1920

An item reported that the French minister Landry informed the naval commission of the Parliament that he would asked permission for building another 12 submarines. The Journal des Débats was very pleased with the initiative and wrote that the state of the government finances and the population figures the maintenance of a fleet of modern battleships did not allowed. The French coast along two seas [North Sea and the Mediterranean] asked for a submarine fleet and to use this weapon as an active weapon. Although Germany was no longer allowed to have submarines in service was this not forbidden for other signatory parties of the treaty .