NAVY BURDEN.
SIXTY MILLIONS STERLING IN SHIPS NEWSPAPER'S ADVICE. TWO WARSHIPS TO GERMANY'S ONE. TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) .London, August 23. The newspaper ''Observer" advocates the building of thirty improved Dreadnoughts or Indomitables, costing nearly two millions apieco, on the basis of the Government's programme of two kecis to Germany's one. • V•' H ' According to a cablegram. of June 14, the latest Dreadnoughts are costing 2J millions each',, or more than a quarter of the estimated annual cost of the new British old age pensions scheme;. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 5
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85NAVY BURDEN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 5
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