DREADNOUGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 8

DREADNOUGHTS.

EXPERT SCEPTICISM AS TO THEIR VALUE. DEFICIENCY OF DOCKS. GERMAN CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS. t«i TKiKaairn—press association—copimoni.) T- • , London, May 11.. Liberal newspapers declare that Lord Charles Beresford, Admiral Sir R. Custance, and some othor officers are sceptical about tho value of the Dreadnought battleships, and are anxious that armoured ships of the pro-Dreadnought type should be distributed in the best possible manner, fully equipped, and in instant readiness for war. , .., Berlin, 'May "11.. Twelve largo German docks, capable of accommodating Dreadnoughts, are built or building, including nine in North Sea ports. DANCER OF SUBMARINE MINES., A TRAWLER RESERVE TO SWEEP THEM OCT. (Roc. May 12,11.40 p.m.) London, May 12. The Admiralty are forming a reserve of a hundred steam trawlers, chiefly craft belonging, to the North Sea ports of Grimsby and' Aberdeen, which, in the/event of war, will be employed , in sweeping up floating submarine mines. .; The skippers of the trawlers will receive a : retaining fee. In connection with the scheme ;a thousand sailors will annually undergo a week's training. : [The sowing of the sea with submarine mines is expected to be. a formidable feature of tho TO'iSiv^r' In Russo-Japanese dr ill r n Japanese lost two of their six- through submarine mines, and olt6d by opponents o£ the rlfJl f v oraze "a 9 illustrating the tw l™ aTlng too ;. ma ny eggs in one basket, r Yi a j' v Asians used mine-