London vin Bombay, March 10.
The Navy Estimates total £40,603,700, an increase £5,551,000, of which ship-building and armaments account for over £5,000,000.
New construction will cost £13,279,830, of which £11,850,790 will be spent in the continuation of ships now building, while £1,429,040 will be utilized on the new programme, which provides for five large armoured ships, five protected cruisers, twenty destroyers and a namber of sab-marines.—Reuter.
Ths original ship-bnildiny programme for the financial year 1909-10 comprised: eight battleships (Dresdnought type), six protected cruisers and twenty destroyers.—Eo.
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