Yard are enquiring into the mat-of vessels, notably the maintenance fon the insistence of the United.
States) of a maximum displacement {for battleships of 35,000 tons.
The calibre of guns will be 14 Inches, being two inches below the Washington Treaty standard.
An important feature is the "gap," 'oF zone of no-construction, between 8.000 and 17,00 tons. The former The crests of this week's dlssstrous foods Tovday wore. rushing down {wollen streams in fourteen astern Slates, coreying new hazards to com= munities in their paths and leaving in {heir wale atleest. 200. dead and 32h 600" homeless men women and "The most conservative estimate. of prope 7 damage caused by the foods F°$2soio00 000, while. Pennsylvanian authorities announced that the damage in their state alone would exceed this Rain fell all_day to-day at Hart~ ford, Connecticut, where fifty squares tity, property were submerged, The waters bepen to recede In that New hazards sppeared_In_upper New York state os mountain stroams wallon by fresh rine and melted row toft their banks and began Hooding the countryside.
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