GERMAN ACTIVITY.
NAVAL ESTIMATES.
IMPRISONED FOR Aim-MrfilTAßlSll" SOCIALIST MARTYR:'"' - - BT TELEGEAHI—MESS ASSOCIATION-TTCOrTItIGHT. '.' ~....; Berlin,.October? 13....,. A.Dill is being submitted in tho Reichstag providing for an increuso of threo million pounds in the annual expondituro on tho navy. Dr. Karl Lieblmecht bas bocnr.sentcn'ced to eighteen'months' a, fortress for high treason in fomenting anti-militarism'. It is thought in : Borlin thaf'tlicCp'rosGeu-" tion,assures Dr. .Liebknecht tboifuturo leadership of the Socialists.
Herr Liobert, formerly Governor-of German East Africa, and the'Pan-Geraan'Congress at Wiesbaden, have helped to forward tho agitation for naval expansion, by recent speeches and resolutions. Herr Liebort predicted that at the present rate of expansion -^Germany-.will be "practically defenceless at sea in tho next decade:" Yet we are also told that tho personnel of ■ the German Navy has risen frora 23,403 to, 46,950 in the last decade, and will next year exceed' 50,001). ■• ""!••"..
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 5
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