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Show , Fl HUNDREDS - HYDJUFLANES WASHINGTON, Now 25 Contracts amounting to $19,051,000 including thoso for 300 hydroplanes and naval supplies havo boon cancelled by the nnvy department since tho signing of - the armistice. This information wa given today by Roar Admiral Peoples to the house naval committee which is framing the 1920 appropriation bill. , .Other contracts expected to be cancelled can-celled will exceed $100,000,000, Admiral Admir-al Peoples said, in addition to approximately approx-imately $500,000,000 cancelled by the naval ordnance bureau. Read Admiral McGowan. paymaster-general, paymaster-general, roduced his estimates for supplies sup-plies including pay of the navy from $971,000,000 to $-106,000,000. oo i I |