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Show RUSSIA PLANS GIGANTIC NAVY 1 New Bill Provides $280,000,000 for Ad mi rally lo Increase Power. Special Cable tr The Tribune. BERLIN, Aug. -i -Ever since the practical destruction of the Russian fleet at Tsushima the necessity of naval preparedness pre-paredness has boon kept In mind by Russian statesmen, and with the passing Of the Russian navy bill by the duma last month, Russia has been definitely committed to a naval programme which will make her a formidable opponent at sea. The bill provides for an expenditure of $2jI!,OC0.000. of Which ncu4ly 200.000.000 Is to be spent on new battleships for the Baltic and Black smhx. The present provision pro-vision Is for four armored cruisers, eltfht smaller cruisers and thirty-six destroyers destroy-ers for the Baltic, while the Russian naval ports arc to tie thoroughly overhauled over-hauled and re-equipped and the existing admiralty duck yards enlarged and improved im-proved In addition to t)if millions Just voted by the duma Russia, during the nxt fle ears, will expend $391,5imi,000 on ships already building, and the terms in Which the bill WSS introduced by the minister ox marine show that davml expenditure ex-penditure for the future will bo OO an expanding scale. With such an addition as Russia will be able to bring to British and French naval forces In northern seas, a combination will he affected that should give pause to any aggressive de-Igns de-Igns on the purl of the mid-European powers . 1 1 |