AN UNWELCOME SHOCK.
BRITISH ARMY INCREASE. ALARM OK THE CONTINENT. LORD ROBERTS' FRANKNESS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 25. The Vienna correspondent of the "Times" states that the adoption by the House of Lords of Lord Roberts' resolution in favour of increasing the strength 'of the British army has given a rude and unwelcome shock to Austria.
The assumption hitherto prevalent in Vienna, he says, was that Great Britain would never earnestly aim at military equally with naval efficiency.
Canadian newspapers are astonished at Lord Roberts' frankness, and American papers consider his remarks iU-advised.
Conservative papers in Berlin raise a note of alarm, to the effect that they suspect Britain's ultimate intentions. Semiofficial journals seek to allay the disquietude caused, emphasising , that the question is purely Great Britain's domestic concern.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 283, 26 November 1908, Page 5
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130AN UNWELCOME SHOCK. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 283, 26 November 1908, Page 5
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