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Show MORE SHIPS AND SOLDIERS. Such is Reply of Americans to German Ger-man U-Boat Attacks. Washington. Into the teeth of the kaiser were flung two defiant challenges chal-lenges from the United States senate as soon as news of the U-boat ravages in American waters reached that body Monday. Senator France of Maryland Introduced Intro-duced a bill appropriating $000,000,000 for the construction at once of twenty battle cruisers and ten scout cruisers. Senator McCumber of North Dakota introduced an amendment to the $12,-000,000,000 $12,-000,000,000 army appropriation bill, directing di-recting the president to Increase the army immediately to five million men, exclusive of non-combatants. |