GERMANY'S NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 5

GERMANY'S NAVY.

THE' PROGRAMME INCREASED. By Telegraph.—Frcaa Association—Pouyrlelit London, February 12, In the House of Commons; the First Lord of the 'Admiralty,, Mr. "Winston Churchill, in reply to questions, said that sinceV the .introduction of tho British l Navar^sriftMJft ll 'iti\-March, 1912, thoro had been no retardation of Germany's naval construction. Her, programme_ had been, increased by tfu'eo battleships ' and' two small cruiscrs. Ono of those battleships had been provided for in tho. 1913 programmo, and a. second was provided for in 191 G. ' The datos of tho laying down of the; third battleship and two cruisers had boen resorved. . ■ i INSPECTOR-GENERAL. , ' -if-— — OF COMMONWEALTH FORCES; 8y Telefrrapli—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, February 13. Brigadier-General Bridges, at present commanding the Royal Military , College at Duutroon, succeeds Major-Gen-eral Kirkpatrick as Inspector-General' of the Commonwealth Forces in May nest. General Bridges, C.M.G., who has been commandant at Duntroon sinco 1910, was born at Greenock, Scotland, in 1861. Ijri obtained his first commission in the New South Wales Artillery in 1885. For a timo ho was Australian representative on tho Imperial General Staff. , __ (