ARGENTINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5

ARGENTINA.

THE NAVY AMD ARMY TO BE INCREASED F(E(.p ARTI^EBY. TO COST ELIVDN MffiHQNB. (?T association—eopißig KT.) ' pucpQS Ayros, August 27, Thp Argentine,Qliftfflber lias authorised the Qovernment t-Q spend eleven. sterling pn an increase to the fleet and the renewal of the field artillery. RI.VAL REPUBLICS. The naval constniation ardors of Brazil api) Argentina may be held to leflegt fairly accur* ately the state of fueling between the two South American fapulijios. • Q]i ©gtoUpi- 31, 1007, their respective fleets wwer= ' Argentina—Battleships 3, armoured cruisers 4, protected cruisers 5, scouts 2, torpedo boat destroyers- 8, torpedo boats 22, subm'ar-, ino, armoured monitors 2. . defence battleships 8, iprotected cruiseijs 6, torpedo vessels 5, torpedo , boats ?, tad 11 old gunboats of no'lighting | value.

But Brazil is very much improving her fleet. \ho has building in England three qf the latest j\B(lern battleships, and is also constructing iJavmoure'd cruisers, 11 torpedo boats, G torpedo bljit destroyers, a'pd 8 submarines. The brittle* shps are so poworfuWit is said that they will hate 13,5 inch guns—that they have been allege to be "secret orders" (under cover of Bra\il) for various great Powers, including Japa and Britain, Tho fftot that they have recitMcating engines instead of. turbines wai held the latter theory'; and lately the i<sa has gained ground tliat all these warships \re really ordered by Brazil for Brazil herseifr-and that, in fact, Brazil has, sub rosa, encoureed the idea that- she is only acting as a "ctyer'* in order to allay the suspicions of hey Smth American neighbours. Certainly such a B(? order of modern vessels woiild place the Braalian navy far above the Argentine if they ew reached Brazil ; and the Argentine order, as. cabled, may be taken as summing \p Argentina's considered opinion on the guestim. ' ,'JRecent oWts in Paraguay, the little repuh: lie wedged 'in between Argentina and Brazil, throw a further light on the position. Early in .filly there yas a revolution in Paraguay against tho government of General Ferreira. Argentina toured the Government, Brazil the revolutipnariei.: The latter were successful, after had' reaghed 150 killed and wounded, and \ formed a Government under Gonzalez- Naseli; while the ejected Ministers took; refuge in\tho. Argentine Legation, So' the nayybuildim of Bra# and Argentina mitj" by flpd 'hy havei,a re'al ineaniiigr