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Show oo SPAIN TO BUILD NEW WARSHIPS Paris, Dec. 10. The Spanish naval program has Just been decided on, according to a special dispatch from Madrid. It will comprise three dread -! noughts of 21,000 tons each, two of the latest type of destroyers, nine torpedo boats and three submarines. All the vessels are to bo constructed construct-ed in Spanish shipbuilding yards. Tho I work is to begin as soon as the battleship bat-tleship Alfonso XIII has been launched launch-ed at Ferrol The new dreadnought Espana, which was launched earl this year. Is to be delivered in April next. net |