THE WORLD'S NAVIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 176, 4 November 1910, Page 5

THE WORLD'S NAVIES

WHAT GERMANY IS DOING. RECORD NAVALESTIMATES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, November 2. In order to follow the development of 'Austria's new Dreadnought fleet, Germany has for the first time appointed a naval attache to Vienna. The German naval estimates for 1911 amount to £23,085,000, which is a record. The only item which shows a decrease is £35,000 in the officers' mess ML

" PANIC -MONGERLNG POLITICIANS." PRICKING THE BUBBLE. I Received 3, 11 pun. London, November 3. Mr. G. Lambert, speaking at Wareham, said the panic in regard to the Navy, ■would collapse npon application of tile needle of fact. By 1912 Germany wquHT jhave thirteen Dreadnoughts, and Great Britain twenty. In the following yeaT: Britain would have 25, plus two colonial; Dreadnoughts, and Germany seventeen.; Britain's pre-Dreadnoughts carried 152! twelve-inch guns, compared with 40 11-! inch guns pn Germany's pre-Bread-j noughts. Mr. Balfour's talk of a naval; loan betokened a lack of confidence m' the tariff Tefonn as a means of finding i the money. He wished the Veto Confer-1 ence would settle the naval standard,', and entrust its carrying out to the Ad-' miralty, and so banish the fever created i by panic-mongerins politicians. !