Russia, France, Italy and Austria have four ships apiece, none being yet completed, and the first-named power proposes as soon as possible to raise her total to twelve. Great Britain leads with thirty-two (which includes two cruisers building at the cost of Australia and New Zealand), followed by Germany with twenty-one, and the United States with twelve, Japan, having this year placed orders for no fewer than five ships of the type (one building in England and four to be laid down in Japan), has increased her total to seven. ![]() THE total number of ships of the all-big-gun type now built, building, or provided for in the current year, is exactly one- hundred.
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