An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that in the meeting of the French Chamber for the 3rd time a supplementary budget of 7.105.750 francs was discussed for new building. The cabinet promised to accord the needed finances for renewing the fleet and the budget of 7 million francs was the first step. The budget consisted of 3.725.750 francs for new building 1.500.000 francs for maintenance and repairs and 1.880.000 francs for works on the Tunisian coast at Bizerte. The French minister of navy was allowed to built new ships by the naval shipyards of elsewhere for around 80 million consisting of 2-9.500 armoured cruisers, 2-7.500 armoured cruisers, 4-300 ton destroyers and 9-85 torpedo boats for the coastal defence. This was extra new building above the ships to be built under the new building program of the law of 1897.
