THE AMERICAN NAVY.
A HUGE PROGRAMME. A REPLY TO FOREIGN POWERS. By Telegraph— Association.—Copyright. Washington, March 5. - Congress has added 3000 men to the navy and voted a million and a-half dollars for target practice, a hundred and twenty thousand dollars being devoted to prizes for marksmanship." America's huge naval programme is interpreted as a reply to GermanAustrian attempts to revive tfye Central European Customs boycott against the United States, a movement 'which is regarded as impracticable and merely an adroit weapon to advance Germany's colonial and economic policies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 5
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