Eondon vid Bombay, 29th April. Fern HI. Lee, Civil Land' of the said that.'the Admiralty will lay miralty, speaking at Gosport,
down this autumn at Portsmouth the first of a new type of battleship, which will be the most powerful in the world and be built in the shortest time. They are known to em-) body considerable alterations in! design, the result of the lessons of; the Russo-Japanese war. The reason of the recent lull in construction) was to enable these results to be; considered and, utilised—Reuter.
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