THE RUSSIAN NAVY
TWO PROGRAMMES HUGE KXI’KNDITURiK OX SHIPS AM) BASES. VESSELS BUILT IX RUSSIA. Ay Tclcyrn ph—Press Association—Copyright f Received February '/I, C. Cl p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG. February 21. The Government has submitted to .he Duma. alternative Naval Fntilnates. The first proposes an expenditure of forty-nine millions sterling, spread over lour years, and provides for the Donstnirtion of four battleships and the re-establi.slinien t of naval bases in the Bnltie.
’I lie second. ivliieh Uio Government favours, involves an expenditure of two hundred millions sterling, to he spread over a period of ten years. It, is stipulntod that all vossols fdiall im built in Russia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 10
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