Washington, Mar. 6.
The Navy Department announced yesterday that the New York Shipbuilding Corporaion of Camden, New' Jersey, had been awarded a contract bt last nights performance of to construct two 10,000-ton light cruis "Lilium" I would like to óffer my heartiest, congratulations. to the cast responsible for this proauction. T the and I ath amazed that Local 1t Was "theatre, in every pense of amateurs could portray this difficult with such brilliance, I sers at US$17,900,000 each.
The two ships will be named the Cleveland and the Columbia, They will be the last of the 21 combatant ships authorized under the 1938 ex-mount six-fu pleted in 36 and 39 months respectively.—Uníted Press.
Shanghai, Mar. 6.
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