SOUTH AMERICAN NAVIES.
HUGE ORDERS TO BRITISH FIRMS. THREE DREADNOUGHTS FOR BRAZIL. COSTING £1,800,000 EACIL Received 28th, 10.20 p.m. London, August 28. The Daily Chronicle now learns that Brazil, i.nd not i'-ussia, ordered the new warships, as cabled on August 22. The contracts include a battleship of the Dreadnought type, which, oil March o last, Vicke:s Son and Maxim were reported to be building for Brazil, and two Dreadnoughts ordered from the E'swick y.'rds foreshadowed in a cablegram on April 29. The Times states that the value of each of these will be one million eight hundred thousand pounds. The Times adds that the Sir William Whitworth .mpany build two Brazilian cruisers and two Argentine gun boats, Vickers Son and Maxim supplying the engines.
(The cablegram of August 22 referred to. state, on the authority of the Daily Xews. that Russia had 'iven largo orders to English firms for battleships, and gun boats, and the builders' insurance, for these amounted to seven millions sterling.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 29 August 1907, Page 3
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164SOUTH AMERICAN NAVIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 29 August 1907, Page 3
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