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Letter: Naval disaster

Derrick Streeton
Monday 13 May 1996 23:02 BST
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Sir: News that the total tonnage of our merchant navy is now 8 per cent of its 1979 level suggests that the Conservative Party is succeeding where Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Hitler failed.

Derrick Streeton

Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex

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