THE NAVY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5

THE NAVY.

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. OUTLOOK FAR FROM SATISFACTORY. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, August 19. The Daily Telegraph draws attention to the fact that Britain’s preDreadnought ships arc rapidly diminishing. The Empire’s naval outlook will darken as the older ships drop out, until wo are actually in a position of inferiority to Germany with respect to pre-Dreadnoughts. AT HOME AND A,... i). Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. At the beginning of the month Britain will have two complete squadrons of Dreadnoughts in Homo water, with a broadside of eighty tons, when the New Zealand returns. She will also have a squadron of battle-cruisers in Koine waters and another in the Mediterranean.

SOUTH AFRICA. ft , . Capetown, August 19. Mr Frederick Dewsal, representing the Unioif Government in the absence of Ministers, interviewed, stated that English and Australian seamen aboard tlio Australia and Sydney were treated alike at the festivities. Regarding naval defence, Mr Dewsal confined himself to the observance that each dominion must solve' its naval problem in its own way. The Cape Times remarks that Mr Dewsal would require to execute his task as host, with amazing dexterity if the eulogy at the banquet on Australia’s naval energy is not to be ever effective as. a comment on South African naval lethargy.