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Show AIR STATION DEFEND CQAST WASHINGTON, D. C Nov. 30. Tho navy department's program for making permanent the twenty-oim constat air defcusd stations planned . for the Mar was explained to the house appropriations committee, by Hear Admit al Taylor, chief ot con-1 structon ho asked that $S5.7C0,-000 $S5.7C0,-000 provided for this work next year. Squadrons of fighting aircraft air-craft of nery description will bo Included In-cluded In the equipment for stations nlong tho Atlantic, gulf and Pacific Insular possessions. In a general discussion of plans, Admiral Taylor said the fastest airplane air-plane in tho world wnb built in the United States. This machine, known as tho KiiUhatu trlplnno, developed a speed ot 1 10 miles an hour nnd experiments ex-periments nro contemplated to soo If It cannot do better than that. Tho admiral also told of a German Ger-man Zeppelin that recently flow, from Bulgaria to East Africa and back. It was sent out to bring homo a German commander, but ho 'was captured before the craft arrived. |