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Show GERMAN COUNCIL ADOPTS BILL TO INCREASE NAVY. BERMN, Nov. 18. The Federal council yt-sterday adopted the navy increase bill. which will be laid before the Reichstag at Its forthcoming" session. The bill provides pro-vides for the Increase for the present building plan i by six large cruisers, of which Ave are for the so-called foreign fleet, and also for the raising of the number num-ber of torpedo divisions from sixteen to twenty-four. The cost of each cruiser will be t6.760.000. The entire additional cost up to the year 1916 will be ttl.250.O0O. The naval appropriation bill In also published. pub-lished. In the abstract It provides for an Increase in the sis and armament of the vessels hitherto voted under the old fleet law. making the cost of the battleships $9,000,000, Instead of $8,250,000. |