Berlin, Mar. 20.
The Reichstag to-day, by 18t votes to 71, rejected 'a motion brought forward by the Communist Party to cease warship construction until 1986, The Socialists abstain. ed, from voting, The Budget of the Minister, of Defence, which includes the first instalment of 11,000,000 marks for the construction of "pocker battle-"B", passed its second readi by 183 votes to 72. dri th case 107 abstained from Socialist House also approved the sup-pi mentary estimate for the fourth instalment for pocket battleship Germany, is building five "pocket battleships" of 10,000 tons displacement each, 'They' are heavily are cured, develop, 60,000 horse-power and carry six 11-inch guns capable of firing a projectile weighing 670 bs. They also carry eight G-inch guns and four 3.6-ineb, guns, with torpedo, tubes. "A", which is. the Ersatz Preussen, was taid down.
in 1930, and the money: for 'B" was voted by the Reichstag last "Phe designed speed of th 3 is 26 knots, with a cruising jum of 10,000'sea miles at 20
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