The German Navy.
"When the heterogeneous elements in Austria are effervescing lfce a seidlitz powder, and Paris is fretting itself into a high fever over M. Dreyfus, at Berlin they are steadily preparing to strengthen their Heet. For sometime past no eftort has been spared to prepare the German public for greatly increased naval estimates, and the time is now considered ripe for launching a big naval policy which will entail the expenditure of £25,000,000 sterling in the course of the next six years. Part of this will be expended in replacing obsolete vessels, but according to the shipbuilding programme, " 7 new battleships, 2 large and 7 small cruisers, will have to be built, the estimated cost of which, including armaments, is set down at £8,250,000." In 1904, if this programme is carried out, the German Empire will have as its normal fleet 17 battleships, 8 coast defence vessels, 9 large and 26 smaller cruisers, in addition to a reserve of 2 battleships, 3 large and 4 smaller cruisers. Preparations for the twentieth century are, therefore, well under way in Berlin, but tbey can hardly be said to augur the dawn of an era of universal peace.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 189, 9 February 1898, Page 3
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197The German Navy. Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 189, 9 February 1898, Page 3
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