BRITAIN'S SEA POWER

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1913, Page 5

BRITAIN'S SEA POWER

AN UNGUARDED EMPIRE. STRENGTH IN HOME WATERS. PLACE OF THE GIFT SHIPS. (By Cable.—Press Assorlltion.— Copyright.) (Received 10.15 ».m.) ' LONDON, August 5. In the House of Lords 10-day Lord Sclbomo drew .ittcntion to the Government's shipbuilding. Quoting Mr Asquith and Sir Cinircbill'a speeches, he said that tlrey were hr.ire words, but Lore as much resemblance to Germany's unswerving policy its n roll of putty to fi bar of steel. Mc pic<l iodic. 'that 1013 would be the crilic.i] year. If the CO per cent margin in liome waters Merc maintained the Matnya ntnl New Zealand would be tho only capital ships in the Mediterranean, and the Australia tlm only super-Dreadnought in the rest of the Empire. In aubstitoilng the Dominion ships the Govenimciit hnd failed in its duty to the overKjiis Dominions. At the present moment the navy wns short by n whole squadron of inoiiorii cnpilnl ships. The Lord Cliniicellor snid that the sitiinlian was not wnaatiHfnctory. The Frnniih fleet in the Mediterrnne.in vni iilttioHt cqii:il to tlic Itflian end tho AMtHan. GUARDING THE SEA LANES. GEF.MAn mrnro squadbon. HEED POE ZIKIIISH REPIiY. BERLIN, .Aug"" 5. "Dcr Tnglisclie RuodKhau" boj-s the fi'cTnnji (;overnit;c!it is contcinfilating thes creutinn of a fipecial cruiser eqnaiiroii to protect Ormaii interests abroad. Tliu cruiser i'orck h being recominiuianod. Sflvcriil Eninl! cruisers will ecrve witli liCfi iviiiie later n secoad largo cruiser will join tlie squadron. LONDON, August 5. Tho "Daily Telegraph" says: "If H is worth Ormany'a wliile to nalabliuli n flying eqandnm for diiitanl sens, liovf mucn more insistent it; the necil to l'.ritain, who oiTiis linlf the shipping of the world, and (o whom open ocenn liighTTHyd are eneentl»l, Tha need for ibmriiip tlio fin? in the outer ?eas lias never Ik-ch denied, but the MnllierliuuVs m Boiircr. 1 ! have proved insufficient for tlie Empire's needs."