RUSSIA'S NEW NAVY
■ A BOLD PROJECT. j LONDON, December 21. It is asserted Russia builds, at a cost of 40 millions sterling, 30 - battleships and cruisers and 200 torpedoers, Germany building the Baltic fleet and Italy the ' - Mediterranean. , i r _ ROME, December 21. A Russian Military Commission, under' General Brynk, is visiting the" Italian shipyards, studying the. Best type of. Warships - compatible with the speediest construction, j ST. PETERSBURG, December 21. \ The- newspaper- Russ urges the' cessation of fche-sagitation. for the despatch of theBlack Sea. fleet, and says, that while the Straits are closed Russia, as master of the Black Sea, is able to coerce- Turkey. If.' the straits are opened Russia would lose her. dominant' i position, in the Eastern question, and many other things also. i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2650, 28 December 1904, Page 19
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