AN AUSTRIAN NAVY
INCLUDES POUR DREADNOUGHTS.
Press Assaciation—By Telegraph—Copyright.
VIENNA, December 9. (Received December 10, at 9.5 a.m.)
One of the local newspaper announces that Admiral Count Montecuccoli, Minister of Marine, will submit to the delegations in January next a naval programme, to be spread over live yeans, and to cost twelve millions sterling. The programme includes the building of four Dreadnoughts, besides the two now building- in Trieste, three eruisers of the Admiral Spaun type, torpedo boats, and submarines. A third Dreadnought will be commenced at Pola in February, after the Delegations have adopted the Estimates, and a fourth be commenced at the Stabiliminto Tecnico Works after the first has been launched next spring. The battleships will all be of 22,000 tons each, with a speed of twenfythree knots, and their main armament will consist of twelve guns of centimetre calibre.
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Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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142AN AUSTRIAN NAVY Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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