APPLYING THE BRAKE
UNITED STATES DEFENCE. ESTIMATES FURTHER REDUCED. By Telegraph,— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 26, 8.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, 25th January. The Committee of Appropriation of the House of Representatives has reduced the fortifications estimates, to ten million dollars (£2,000,000), of which the iai'gest item is a million dollars for coast batteries in the Philippines. The Government's naval construction programme was also cut down, only four battleship^ baing go-nteffl instead of two. Fortifications on the Californian coast were recommended by the ArmyGeneral Staff, which pointed out that an Oriental power could land a hundred thousand men on the American Pacific coast within a month of the commencement of hostilities, and three hundred thousand within three months.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 5
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118APPLYING THE BRAKE Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 5
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