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Show oo GUN BOAT FOR CHINA TO BE BUILT HERE Washington. Dec. 23. American naval shipwrights have managed to 6ecure another contract from abroad. Though the boat Is a little one, being a training cruiser of 2,000 tons for; the Chinese navy, It Is believed to bo the precursor to other orders. Thii contract, the hlgnlng of which the state department has Juki been notified noti-fied of, is probably the re6ii of the visit to this country lat summer of thet Chinese commission headed by Tsai Hsun. i |