Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 5 | Only One Big Ship Not to be Built

ONLY ONE BIG SHIP NOT TO BE BUILT LOXDOX, July 27. The ajritation ajrainst excessive reduction of the na. val construction programme has proved successful and Edmund Robertson, Parliamentary secretary of the admiralty, admi-ralty, announced in the House of Commons Com-mons todav that only one battleship of the Dreadnaugrht class would be deleted de-leted from the original programme, although al-though savings totalling $12,500,000 would be effected bv reducing the turnout turn-out of a number or smaller vessels. Mr.' Bobertson said that onlv three new Dreadnaughts would be laid down instead of four as originally proposed.