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Show I COST OF A MODERN NAVY. Building a navy Is an expensive undertaking. un-dertaking. We have before us two and a half pages containing descriptions descrip-tions of the British warships, with figures on ilioir cost In th long Us! (here are not A dozen ships under H one million dollars Battleships and cruisers of the first class are placed as high as $10,561,000 Notwithstanding this great cost. England Eng-land now has under construction J7 big warships. Some of the larger ships building are: Emperor of India, 25,000 tons, 10 13 1-2-inch guns; cost ?10. 100,000. Queen Elizabeth. 27,500 tons, S 15 inch guns; cost 510.500,000 Tiger, 2S 000 tons, S 13 1-2-in- h guns; cost $10,500,000. Valiant, 27.5O0 tons, 8 15-inch, 12 6 Inch guns: cost $10,500,000. ;:rs pile, 27,500. S 15-inch, 12 6-inch 6-inch guns; cost $10,500,000 In thl? list of million dollar ships, there are 20G descriptions The to tal runs into billions of dollars, Xo wonder England at one time proposal to Germany that the two countrip-i curtail their armament A warship today, to be of the first class, calls for an expenditure of at least $10,000,000, or more than tr entire cost of the American navy at the beginning of the Civil War |