BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 13

Although Mr. Churchill refused to reply to a question in the House of Commons relative to the number of Germany’s fully commissioned battleships, the ‘Evening News’ states that Germany had twenty-two in commission ; Britain had nominally twen-ty-nine, but eight were in Malta and six were in dock, leaving Germany with a 50 per cent, superiority, while Britain had no superiority in fully commissioned destroyers. The ‘Daily News’ says Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s plan avoids a grave objection whereto Mr. Borden’s is exposed—viz., it weakens, if not destroys, the remaining control of the British House of Commons over the Foreign policy. <ix it.') \«■ v .