Washington, Apr. 17.
An addition of $45,000,000 to the present United States Navy budget of $965,000,000 was recommended today by Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, in continuing his testimony before the Senate Naval Committee, 'The recommended $45,000,000 would be divided into two parts of which $18,000,000 would be for development of maritime facilities in ports and $27,000,000 for building new units, consisting of four cruisers, eight' submarines anid thirteen destroyers during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1940.
Admiral Stark submitted to the Committee a memorandum disclosing that Germany has just finished building two new battleships and has four more under construction. Italy has completed two and is building two others, Japan is building eight, Great Britain nine, France four (of which two were completed recently) while the United States is building eight battleships—Havas.
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