America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 3 July 1916, Page 8

America

BIG WARSHSP BUILDING. EXPENDITURE OF £100,000,000 IN THREE YEARS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.—Copyright. Now York, July.l, The Naval Appropriation Bill Ims been reported in tile Senate. It authorises £61,000.000 for the year, £9,000,000 more than the original programme. The building increases, which were originally for five years, and will be carried out ill three, include ten battleships, four to be begun immediately; six battle-cruisers, ten scout cruisers, fifty destroyers, nine fleet submarines (three of ihem 800-tonners) and twelve others subraaThe new units total 157, of which 01. are io be Blurted without delay. A bonus of twenty per cent, over contract rates is to bo offered for expeditious delivery. It is estimated that the expenditure during the next three years will total £100,000,000, DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. ORIENTAL WHARF AND ARMY SUPPLIES BURNED. (Beceived 8.45 a.m.) New York, July 2. The Oriental wharf and army supplies at Seattle, which were valued at half a million, were burned. v GERMAN SUBMARINES, IN AMERICAN WATERS. BASE IN CHESAPEAKE BAY.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) Now York, July 2. The Times states that German submarines from Hamburg have readied A'meriea. An announcement appears in Wnngarian newspapers, stating thnt a submarine concealed in the waters of Chesapeake Bay shortly returns to Europe.