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Show The Inflexible, tho latest English iron-clad, is to be protected in parts with twenty-four inches of plating. Tne Alexandria, just launched, will carry on her sides armor twelve inches thick, ticrmany and Russia are also increasing their iron-clad navies, and the (ormer has a forge on the Neva which is tinning out 12-inch guns, and the Berdon, the new lifle of the Russian army, is being manufactured in large quantities. It is now thought that Russia will have to resort to a i consolidated loan to the amount of '$-100,000,000 or $500,000,000 to relieve re-lieve her growing financial embarrassments. embar-rassments. France has a debt of $1,500,000,000, with an iutcrest charge of $65, 000, 000, and Germany's interest account is $45,000,000. Our own country is also bled to the extent ! of $100,000,000 a year to satisfy the exactions of a mad military policy, i Tho whole world is to-day in the hands of the money lenders, and the industry of every nation is drained to meet the dem-uds of war. When will this cut-throat system cease? is a question as fresh and vita( now as it lias been in any era of man's murderous murder-ous history. |