NAVAL ISSUE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 5

NAVAL ISSUE

COST OF NATIONAL INSURANCE. is IT "FRITTERING"? 'V; By Telotranh—Pross Aesociation—Ooo.vrieht. ■ ' . London, January IG. Mf. A; J. Balfour, Opposition Leader, ih'a speech-at. Bradford,■ said it. was perl'eotly plain that,.thero were; ttyo schools of:...thought- in the., Cabinet-pbrie which lookeil forwardwith' deep alarm to ..the. growth 0f... a. rival; naval Sower, while the other', school talked .of ./'frit' teriiig away public money" on the; Navy;

•'i 'T dbn't know AVhich; School'would: win. if the ; Budget provided funds,"added tEe ,'s'iieaker, "but when itb are fafced: with; a deficit, as I; believe is certain, the/school which- regards naval expenditure ' as. 'frittdfing' :will -finally; dominate;the policy of the, Cabinet" 1

SWORDS AND PLOUGHSHARES, v THE WAR AND PEACE ASPECTS O? KRUPPS London, January 16. ' "With regard to Germanyg espenditurb on, armaments, and the stateiiieiit of the "Daily.... :■ Chronicle''. (Liberal) ; — that Krupps. chiefly turn out implements foi peaceful ihUrtstryi ';the.''greatest total of hands' ; employed ". bii ■ armahibilta - being 56tt(K-a rbply to lie;"Chr'omclo" is forthcoming from Air. Robert Blaichfonl, tlio cdnttibntot : ; -of a' Series jof. articles -in the Unionist jifess ah German prepared' ness fbr.;war.V.-^ : ; In the: course of hia reply,'■' Mr, ford ; quotes ; the. "Chronicle's" article of March 20 : last,"' stating • that- : . Krupps.- in 1907 employed; 4350 t men;''Mid ihad.: since secretly raised two' millions sterling ior the purpose of increasing ' their. inanuiacture of gmißi guli-niountings, and armour-, 'piafes.i:'- - -' ".\v

■' : [Tie International Arbitration League, in, a.letter,- recently,described -Mr... Blatchford, us' a■■■'.'6taTerilonK«^^■Md■.'ttS"a pawn.in: the Oppdsition's party game.];;.

- AN UNASSAILABLE NAVY. ONE OP THE REASONS FOR;THE BUDGET. ...' .. ' • (Rec. January 17, 0.80 p.m.) .... London, January 17. ■ In a speech at Cneff; tho .Prime Minister, Mi. ' declated that. tie but-, .cpf'; about, the .position .of the Navy had completely failed. Tho v'eiy i xeason ; fbr a portion of the now tfutes was that the Government, recbgnisin(> the fiew- eonditions under. which , naval,aiiniliistratibn had; now to be .carried 'on,'took prompt and effective measures ta make the fiation's; naval .'power and'-'unas;' "ailable

VALUE OF PRE^DREADNOUGHTS,; r i y'? '? suo was : published \ a H; rc P® r ' ; "I 1 estimate of the cbmP.f * e stre VS«i of tho British -and: the ;woytaan , navies .m: April,,: 1912, tor;the Se cretary of tho 'AdHy r ' 'Maonamara.v, The'.'estimate,nfr,ln . of w A loh 18 the',battleships- — sn° Uf n \ c f. as foUm «« 'i! ...-Dreadnoughts, 10' pro-' 35 armoured cruisers; Gar3S*. 13 Dreadnoaghts, , 20 pre-Dread- ; vSl ts ' ,?i ar r« ured cmisers. .. v ?j?,'™<>: differences of< opinion eiist «L tlio fjomparitive fighting value, of the pre-Dreadnought ■ baltlesh ra m -^^rr^pon.ftnt^^;^ In ri •*¥" most vessels of tho in- £mT,' G ® rma fr': contention is & *4 ...additipnv^ : h6r.;Dr«i^iotights. : afi ; d..liii cibles, which will give her in 1911 h superiority .of .three over So Gormnn . of. the ..sante, class,;.- -Ehidand : an overwhelming ln an'l in n - 5 fif . 11.0M I ,to-.10,000 tons; ana in armoured cruisers, of 11.000 bin, ;and. upwards..; But. in'the"mS-of' ?r T t these-; ;bak : /Heships and-arttionred cruisers' bould' only ;Play, a, decisive part:at i' stage of < the ; campaign when tho: Dreadnoughts on both mdes.would bo pWed hors de ?omb'at W .yi^ rio ■faS 'tlf£2 n ? ,°f V'OWr a Superiority of j'.ovtt.:th6--": German"-' the heavy calls that are--ahraVs liabln In npoii - the British" .Lit* in ; 3 of- the