Naval Power

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 5

Naval Power

THE ARMAMENTS QUESTION.

XLOYD C;K: RUE AND TIIE HORNETS' NEST. BRITISH CABINET UNITED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyri;nl Received 5, 10 55 p.m. London, January a. 'llie Daily (T ronicle declares that the Cabinet is united on (lie armaments ■question, ft instances Mr. Churchill's in the House of Comniona on March 29, and his speech at Alexandra Palace on November 15, and also Mr. Asquith's Guildhall and Leeds adtresses. Mr. Lloyd George, it says, though strongly convinced of the value of improved relations witit Germany, fli<l not suggest any doubt of the continued efficacy and importance of the Triple Entente. Mr- Chiozza Money, M.P., in a letter to the Daily Chronicle, says that it is impossible to maintain a supreme navy unless the estimates are increased. If these arc not increased, contract!? must lie cancelled, thus trenching on thn Kargin of superiority. He emphasised that Germany's navy is independent of the Estimates, but Germany has a permanent law establishing its mainten- - ance in perpetuity. Its navy is enormously bigger than Great Britain's. Mr. Chiozza Money asks: How can 61 Dreadnoughts, which the German law / Certainly establishes, he the main ior- " ~ continued superiority <iy a British fleet founded on reduced estimates? GERMAN* MISTRUST INCREASED. | COUNT IIEVENTLOW PROTESTS. Received 5, 10.55 p.m. Berlin, January 5. Count Reventlow, in the Deutsche Yageszeitung, declares that Mr. Lloyd George's language only increases German mistrust. He especially resents >lr. Lloyd George's description of annulments, against which the industrial eiasses of Western Europe have revolted. J»? organised insanity. , ITALIAN INTERPRETATIONS. K FOKCISD TO RESIGN-* Received 5, 10.53 p.m. Rome, January 5. Some of the leading organs consider that since the British Cabinet is united on the question : of abandoning the proposed increase in the Naval Estimates, •fr. Lloyd George is forced to resign, especially as Mr. Churchill will always be able and ready with Opposition support. . ttSwpa.jKjri} interpret Mr. Lloyd George's convorsstiou as not a promise of reduction of" armaments. but as warning that it is impossible lo exceed •actual limits, except witli the risk of •verturning a national edifice. .FRENCH AND GERMAN COMMENT. r GERMANY'S NAVAL EXPANSION. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Paris, January iFrench papers .Jriuntly state thai France does nbt share Mr. Lloyd George's satisfaction because Germany is increasing her army. Her expenditure has since forced wholly unexpected •utlays upon the Republic. Berlin, January 4. German papers ridicule disarmament. A correspondent states that there is no real objection in Germany to any naval policy that Britain may adopt. German ■aval expansion is wholly provoked by utterances suggesting that England i= •wavering and speeches that England is compelled to increase her defences by German aggressiveness.