BRITAIN & GERMANY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 1 November 1910, Page 5

BRITAIN & GERMANY

ONLY SALVATION FROM WAR.

CAPTAIN MAHAN'S VIEWS

(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) LONDON, October 31.

I Captain A. T. Mahan, of the UnitJed States Navy, and one of the United States delegates to The Hague Convention, in an article in the Daily Mail, says that an examination of the international situation shows that the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria and Italy) outmatches the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) on land. The real strength of the military power of the Triple Alliance is the financial resources of France and the British Navy. Granted a continuance of the present laws of capture, the wonder \is that intelligent Britishers advocate the immunity from the incidence of war for all sea-borne commerce under the delusive definition of private property. Britain's command of the seas is the sole deterrent to war. Owing to the adoption or Dreadnoughts, Germany- has entered the struggle for preponderance, and when antiDreadnoughts shall be confessedly obsolete she shall have very little start. The only salvation from war is Britain's readiness for war. CONFIDENCE IN GERMANY'S GUN MATERIAL. (Received Last Night, 11.25 o'clock) , BERLIN, October 31. The Admiralty has furnished the Daily Mail's correspondent with an official communication which states that the new 13*- inch guns on the British ships has been ' received in Germany with equanimity in view pfHhe universal confidence in Germany's gun material. Wide sections of the population in Germany regret that the new ships_ are being built along the path first* trodden by. England, with the introduction of the Dreadnought, since the higher cost of construction is unavoidable. The Admiralty state that they have twenty ships in the 1910 Budget, which will be completed in accordance with the -\aval Law.