TSAR AND DUMA.
NAVY-KEB UILDING VOTE REJECTED. SMALL CRAFT APPROVED. BY IELEGIUriI—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHI (Rec. March 19, 8.35 p.m.) St. Petersburg, March 19. Tlio Defence and Budget Committees of the Duma, 'by 19 votes to 14, rejected the credit for tho construction of battleships, and ap'r proved the votes. for torpedoers and submarines. . Tho. Duma:. Committees, have, apparently, veto'ed the. navy-rebuildiug scheme, arid confined the vote to defensive craft.'/If the Duma adheres- "to. 'this stand, trouble' with, tho Tsar would appear' to be certain,/, especially after M. Stolypm's warning, cabled yesterday, that a refusal of the larger rote would be dangerous to, lJussia's international states, in view of the competition for 'armaments, among, tlio Powers. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 7
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