PARIS: The Pakistan Navy has ordered two submarines to be built by the French La Ciotat Shipyards, a company spokesman said today [Oct 31].

The submarines will be of the 1,043 ton deepdiving Daphne-type of which eleven are currently in service of the French Navy. They have a cruising speed of 15.5 knots.

The keel laying is expected early in the new year and delivery in the next two years. The Daphne-type submarine has also been adopted by the Portuguese Navy which ordered four units at the Ciotat`s Atlantic coast shipyards.

The Spanish Navy is also building two such units under licence in its own shipyards.

The Pakistan Navy may order a third unit, the spokesman said. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by our Staff Correspondent,] meat is no necessity for a good dinner was proved by example and precept at a dinner-lecture held by the Pakistan Vegetarian Society at the Theosophical Hall [Karachi] last evening.

There were about a dozen delicious, spicy, aromatic vegetable dishes that made not only the mouth water but also compelled the eyes to feast like the famished.

The dinner, styled `Bombay Thali`, had typical Gujrati delicacies to offer. The menu a100 puri, rice, curry, dokla, raita pakoras, bhindis, two dals and a variety of pickles and sauces.

More than 150 women and men had gathered for the dinner which was preceded by a lecture on the virtues of vegetarianism and followed by songs.

The Society has about 150 members, mostly Parsis, with a sprinkling of foreigners; but hardly 10 per cent were confirmed vegetarians; others liked vegetarian delicacies.

There was no tea or coffee to round off the dinner; nor any sweet dish either. Vegetarians reckoned tea and coffee as intoxicants; and no vegetarian seems to have a sweet tooth.