AIR AND SEA FLEETS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1999, 5 March 1914, Page 5

AIR AND SEA FLEETS.

RACE FOR SUPREMACY. i , SEITAIN AKD GERMANY. By TdeE'raph--Press Afe^eiation—CoDyrisM London, Marcli 3. Mr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), in reply to Mr. 3, Allen Baker (Labour M.P. for Einsluiry) on a question concerning the British and German shipbuilding programmes, said thjM; tho.displacements of all. tho latest British battleships wore considerably below those of almost all the latest constructed abroad. Th-e Admiralty was willing to join an agreement limiting the size of capital ships. Tho Supplementary Naval Estimates have- boon passed 6y the House of Commons. GERMAN CAMPAIGN. MORE SHIPS REQUIRED. Berlin, March 3, _Hcrr Von Kooster, President of the Navy League, in a speech "at Oldenburg, forecasted" a fresh campaign for more ships. "REAL NOT A PAPER EXAMPLE." (Rec. March 4, 0.05 a.m.) Boffin, March 4. Official circles disavow all eoun.cotiou with jin alarmist articlo in the "Cologne Gazette," by the. St. Petersburg eorr«s sponctoit of tliat-'poper, declaring that Russia would bo ready for war in tho autumn of 1917, Count Re.yentiow accuses the British Admiralty of systematically understating'the siao of the British capital ships, and adds German .Navy, has always followed, approsimately. the ■ British displaeamoiit. Me wo'tik). gladly icfrain i'roij) further increasns or rctlnce, if tinj British Admiralty would sot a. real, not a paper- examplo. BRITANNIA AIRSHIP. FOR OVERSEA DOJHNIONS, fctirido.fi, March 3. The Brifaniiia Airship Committee ha& opened its appeal hi India, Canada., and tlio Australian States. It.gfers to istmstvnct a. similar vessel at cost pric.Oj #15,000, for AustrflHft.or New Zealand, The? vessel will ho all-British made, and will have many new features. Mr. Chnreliill will accept the BritnnHtxt if tho appeal is stpccessful.