NAVAL EXPANSION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 872, 19 July 1910, Page 5

NAVAL EXPANSION.

GERMAN .RADICAL VIEWS. ' -fA- ' . RESTRICTION FAVOURED. •By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Bee. July 19, 0.50 a.m.) • Berlin, July 18. ' The newspaper "Norddeutsche" re- .. joices at the pleasing change in AngloGerman relations, and hopes that armaments will henceforward be calmly and dispassionately discussed. The future . relations of the two peoples will then correspondingly , improve, and general confidence and peace will be strength- ■ ene4. afresh. The Radical "llorgen Post" strenuously argues'that .German opinion favours . - the restriction of naval armaments. « 'The,' "Norddeutsche" regards the Russo-Japanese agwement as a surety for the maintenance of peace in the Ear ; East. ' ' .' ■' It adds that the idea that ■ the treaty .1b due to British machinations in the 4 , interests of an Anti-German quadruple en- ' tente'has never been taken seriously in .well-informed German quarters. REICHSTAG AND LIMITATION. • * i Berlin, July 17. ' The principal Socialistic daily journal "Vorwaerts," commenting on the recent speech in the British House of Commons, by "Mr. "Asquith;,(rrime Minister), 6ays the Governemnt need only give the initiative in order to find at once thata majority of. the Reichstag is in . favour Of the limitation of naval armaments. AUSTRIA'S -DEEADNOTTGHTS. Vienna, July 17. It is stated in Vienna that-the first Austrian Dreadnought will be ready for Service in ■ the autumn of 1013. • MR. ASQUITH'S SPEECH. GERMAN INFERENCES. , (Rec. July 19, 1.5 a.m.) Berlin, July 18. The "Wiener Tageblatt," which is in close touch with the German Foreign Office, eulogises Mr. Asquitli's utterances on. Britain's naval, policy, and infers that Mr. Asquith ■is considering- the possifeility of an understanding with Germany.