BRITIAN'S FIGHTING SHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1962, 20 January 1914, Page 7

BRITIAN'S FIGHTING SHIPS.

SUPERIORITY MUST BE MAINTAINED, B i'^«ferapli--I l r«ss;Associ<it.ion.--C^ i DS-'riEht \ _ London, Januaiv 10 ~ Loid,-- Ilaldane;, epcakiu;; at lloxton,. Jsaid that? the Lib'erals'did not intend to' weaken ;the Navy .or . depart .'.from: tlio. of efn^ren'cy';laia,dowil.;'.;.^f : ?: • Mr. Jlorbcrt. Saimie).. .(I'ostina.steFj General), in an address at Carliuhow, j saidthat-oiringto.'.her./world-wide re--sponsibilitv Great Britain imi'it main-: ' ! taiu';a of'capital ~'ah.ipsLjf- ; .ii-,.;v j ' THE "LITTLE NAVYITES." MEETING OF UIiERALS -STORMY : ;SCENES. :;f; London, Jaruary 1" vl pieetitig of 33 persons,, which inciud!.ied;Sir:,.John -Bruliner (a' prominent Lib-' | eral), SirrAValter' Runciman ' (President j;of. the/Board of lAgricultuie;,' Sir.Henry' |.'.Priiiiro'so?{eh'airinnn".of;.tho Pacific Cable -rlloard), Mr." D: ,: Mason'(Liberal M.P. for !.;Coventrv),'and Mr. Thomas Lough (Lib-' |-oral : M!Py...for.:lslington),' f assed a rcsosurging'; the ..reduction of-.'anna-; j ments."' nnroariotis"'scenes at, the .meeting; several Stock' Excbango ' members-i denouncing .tlio.; "little „.Nayyit.es." 1 ' s, !; SAVEDBN;INCRBAvSING HER ' i^I^^^ARMAMENTS^si' : : Stockholm, January 18."< V •". -The.King, in opening the ' Riksdag, announced tluit- tlwro woukl ■■bo,,aii;-'in-crenjie. in" armaments, the extra''cost'to >;i)o unado" tsp-by a J special tax on the larger;; fortunes and higher, incomes;-; '. : dcclared ; that.'justico and the wel'far;e;of«,.tho -State'-demanded an.ekten-. sion .of.Apolitical rights to women. AUSTfiI VS BIG NAVY SHIPS Vienna,.January 18. . The Szent Istva-n, tho fourth Austrian Dreadnought,has been.' launched at Fiumo. . ; " ■ ■ &:f'uh-