Eight Cruisers Building at One Time: New Dirigibles Washington, Mar, 19.
President Coolidge bias recom~ mended to Congress an appropriation of $200,000 to enable the Navy Di~ partment to investigate an experiment upon safety devices for submarines.
Mar. 21.
Proposing the largest naval penditure since the Washing! Conference, the annual Navy Department Supply Bill was reported to-day to the House of Represcntatives by the Appropriations Committee to total $359,000,000. This represents an increase of $20,000,000 over the current funds, chiefly owing to the increasing cost of aval aviation and the fact that, fas all the eight 10,000-ton cruisers Quthorized in 1924, will be under construction at the' same time, the Committee anticipates an immediate upward trend in the cost of naval construction, "The Bill allots $2,000,000 to start the construction "of two now dirigibles, each 782 fect long and 132 fect deep, with a maximum speed of 75 knots. Each airship will carry © crew of EL officers and men, and their total cost will be and hypocrisy 'A sum of $50,000,000 is allotted for heavier-than-air aviation, an me crease of $11,000,000 Plus this contract authorization of $10,000,- 000, this will provide for the delivery of 271 new planes in 1028-29, '$48,000,000—an increase of $13,- 000,000—is allotted to comple eight cruisers and two "V" type paganda and the ideas of Leninism sub ines by 1930, Pagreiand and her colonies. Armed The Marine. Corps allotment. la warfare must be preceded by increased by $1,000,000 in connec, Tiruurgle aguinst the inclinations for] tion. with the despnich of 7,000 compromise, which are embedded marines to China and Nicaragua, among the maj British "$6,000,000 is provided to complete workmen and against the ideas of the modernization of the batt Crolation and the peaceful exter- Nevada and Oklahoma—Reuter, tation of capitalism. Only then will it be possible to count upon the Complete success of an armed itsrogxnorat, Feb, 28:—The Crown Prince of Sweden' inaugurated the new telephone connection between Sweden and America to-day by call-Clonal question and this represents ing up the American Secretary of Yeo great a factor of success for us State, Mr. Kellog These tele-to waste time on the prolonged pre- pho connections, aration of the working cla subscriber in Sweden with practi ly ever important centre of Europe, Cet System Urged have now been extended to North "Prom your last report, evidently and South America, The price for the agitation and propaganda work the transatlantic calls ig atill very in the army is weak and in the /high, amounting to about 100 kroner navy very little, better."
It sug- (about £5.8.0) a minute—Reuter, ests that "¢en should be established in all uni of troops, particulary in large centres, also and. military attention should be paid to the latter, ax in the event or the danger of wai with the aid of the latter and in contact with the transport workers it would be possible to paralyze all the bourgeois military preparations and to turn an imperialist into a class Tt suggests the formation of a group of military 5 section of the Labour Party this morning wore still unsatisiod. They want to know the identity of the friend who gave Mr. im Thura information regarding the Zinoviett Letter.
Mr, im Thurn, interviewed by Reuter this morning, said that he had no doubt about the authenticity of the Zinovielt Lotter. He express fed the opinion that the matter should be dropped and buried. There were very strong reasons, ho declared, why it was impossible for fin to disclose the name of his detailing from them more Comrade Chicherin Indignant energetic and capable men.
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