EXPANDING NAVIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 333, 8 March 1910, Page 5

EXPANDING NAVIES.

DEBATE IX THE REICHSTAG. PROGRAMME DEPRECATED BY SOCIALISTS. ANGLO-GERMAX RELATIONS. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright, Berlin. March C. A member of the Centre Party in the Reichstag deprecated the building of a, navy by loan, and recommended efforts to terminate the rivalry of armaments. Admiral von Tirpitz, Minister of Marine, said the Government endeavored to adapt its estimates to the Empire's finances. The ('resent Estimates were •£1.020.000 below those of 1007. Moreover, in 101G loans for shipbuilding purposes would cease. ITerr Suedekum, a Socialist, said the navy was the cause of political nnresi and unjustified by trade. Tn face of the fewness of Germany's colonies Great Britain could only conclude that the navv was directed against her. Herr Hollwcig said Germany's relations with Great Britain were clear, above board, and friendly. The whole world, he said, knew their shipbuilding programme. Xothing had been done in secret or in a. fashion justifying suspicion of menace. Germany's policy was directed solely to the freo expansion of her economic and social forces, He was .convinced, on a basis of honesty and frankness in free competition anions' the nations, that the present trustful relations with the British Government would continue to develop favorably and .similarly to influence the feelings of the two peoples. ...••._ -