TWO POWER TEST.
WHAT IT MEANS:
- "TWO KEELS TO ONE."' by TELEQEArn—ritEss issocitTioN—corTßionT. London, January 1. Tho, Navy League insists that tho next Na'vnl Estimates should be forty, millions if Great Britain is to lay down two keels where Germany lays down one. >
"During the next four, years,", says, the "Daily Hail" (Nov. 18), " Germany will annually lay "down four armoured ; ships . (three Dreadnoughts:and oho' hujto armoured cruiper or Inviucible), in addition to two r>rr\Rll cruisers, • twelve 'destroyers , and submarines. Tho estimates' for 11108 involve tin 'outlay , of .€17,000,000, and the. annual outlay will in future years gradually rise to '-£19,1)00,000.' ; ' , " The following figures show the '.advance,',ln the German estimates in t.he last ten years":— JS9B, £5,900,000; 189'J, £G,500,000; 1900, £7,400,000; 1901, ■ £9,600,000;- 1902, £10,000,000; IDO3, £10,200,000; ISM.' £10,500,000; 1905, £11,400,000;' 1900, £12,400,000;" 1907,- ' £13,000,000;' 'IOOS, 1 £17,000,000. . : ■ ::: : ~ > .v; - -
" As the.popuktion of Germany 15,61,C00,000, the cost of the, German Navy per l head' in 1903 will, be': 55." 7d. : Tho' cost of the British Nnvy. per head. 1 ' of the population/ of . the United Kingdom in the present? year is a trifle under 145." ; <■"; ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 5
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184TWO POWER TEST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 5
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