BRITISH NAVAL SUPREMACY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 14, 16 January 1914, Page 4

BRITISH NAVAL SUPREMACY.

Discussing naval rivalry the Nation says in Dreadnoughts and superDreadnoughts Britain will command in March, 1914, thirty to Germany's seventeen, with a still greater qualitative advantage, and a long tail of King Edwards, and of other types, superior to anything that Germany] can show: so that on the same datej England exhibits sixty-eight capital ships of 1,187,150 tons to Germany's thirty-seven of 615,955. In the greater and more powerful cruisers comparison is merely ridiculous, for Britain will have thirty-two of 332,800 tons to eight German' ships of 82,775 tons. In smaller cruisers alone is there something approaching parity, though i:i no way reaching it, while in destroyers and submarines the advantage is again

enormous. There is, in a word, no Anglo-German naval confrontation. Jt lias disappeared within four years of the moment when it was declared to dominate European politics.