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Show COUNCIL OF EMPIRE HAS ADOPTED MARINE BUDGE St. Petersburg, June 6. The couik of empire has adopted the rnari. budget restoring the appropriation $1, 700.000 rejected by the duma. Tb amount is to go toward the const tlon of four new battleships authorlz-in authorlz-in 1908, but as yet the work of co struction has not begun. Keels of t) fir6t two battleships will be laid Jul 18 and July 3. Vice Admiral Birileff, ex-minister -marine, in his speech on the subje-of subje-of new ships of war, advocated t! sale of all old vessels of the na which have become useless. |