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Show HUGE SUMS FOR DEFLNSE. Additions of Fifteen Millions Made to Naval Bill. Washington. Big increases were added to nation defense appropriation measures in congress Tuesday and plans were miade to put through quickly quick-ly other far-reaching provisions requested re-quested by the administration to prepare pre-pare the country for whatever may follow the break with Germany. The house, hurying the annual naval bill toward completion, wrote into it additional appropriations totaling $15.-000,000, $15.-000,000, of wbjch more than $5,000,000 la for ammunition for merchant auxiliaries aux-iliaries of the fleet, and nearly $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 for antiaircraft guns to defend naval stations. |