RUSSIAN FLEET.
' ' TSAR AND DUMA. ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS. .- 61 TEI.EG ItAPU —PUES3 AE3OCIJ.TIOK—OOrTCIOHT. . ' (Rec. Fob. 21, : 9.43 pim.) ' St. Petersburg, February 21. ■ ' .....JTho Russian Government has submitted to tho-Duma, alternative; Naval Estimates. Tho first, scheme proposes an expenditure ofj 49 millions sterling, spread over four yoars, , for tho construction of four battleships and tho re-ostablishinent, of the naval bases in the Baltic Sea. 7 Tho second,' which tho-Government favours, involves an experiditurci of 200 million sterling, spread over ten years. All the vessels'are to be built in Russia. LABOUR ON THE RAND. 7.:'. \ . " MADAGASCAR AS RECRUITING I."' 1 ' FIELD. I or xEr.EGUAPn—rnEss association—coprmorT. | (Rec. Fob. 22, 0.17 a.m.). I : London, February 21. I .Mr. Cliurchill, Under-Secretary for the I Colonies, stated in the House of Commons that tho Transvaal Government had asked Britain to ascertain whether Franco would! sanction the recruiting! of Madagascar natives'- for employment in tho. Rand. mines.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 128, 22 February 1908, Page 5
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149RUSSIAN FLEET. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 128, 22 February 1908, Page 5
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