AMERICA’S PREPARATIONS
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Washington, Mar. 5.
Congress has added 3000 men to the navy, and voted a million and a half dollars for target practice, 120,000 dollars being devoted to prizes for marksmanship. America’s huge naval programme is interpreted as a reply to German and Austrian attempts to revive a Central European Customs boycott agaip.st the United States. The movement is regarded as impracticable, and merely an adroit weapon to advance Germany’s colonial economic policies. Berlin, March 5. Many distinguished German jurists are expressing opinions hostile to Monroeism. Professor Wagner declares it an empty pretension, unsupported by peal power.
Typhoid patients at Coonamble (N:S.W.) are sleeping in sheep-stalls and the nurses in horse-stalls.-
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 834, 7 March 1903, Page 2
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