SHIPS! SHIPS! SHIPS!

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 7

SHIPS! SHIPS! SHIPS!

THE CRY FOB, A STRONG NWY The interview with< tho Gknnan Emppror and tho disclosures which havo followed it havo led public opinion to demand an incitaso in the Navy ' Tho "Ol>3Prvor" summarjses r it3 case m thieo nord», 'Ships, ships" 1 ' " Loan or no loan," jj; laje, "we must have foi noit year necessary Dreadnoughts ind must p"" thp price, cost what it may In tho old prowl motto, ' Ships, colonies, commerce,' tw.q words aro almost supeifluous Because we had the first ot those the rest i\cre added unto us The quint-essential watchword of our safety lies in a simpler sentence, ' Ships, ships, ghips ' " An Announce-new Wanted. "• j" ' J ' ( r " AY hat the \ast majority of IJpglishmcp will hive stamped upon their minds is $o "Cmpeior's admission that the majority of tho Goimin nation are unfriendly to us, and his. contention that this hostile ihean. t6 go on indefinitely enlaiging .their jiayy ? '' says the "limes" "That part of tho conversation will not, wo trust, oscapo. earnrst attention of the British Gmorumont An immediate innouneoment m Parlnment that they intend to proceed nei.t yeir with the number of Preadnought3 and lmhnfciblcs necessiry to Loop oui ilecta Will up to the two Power staudaul would bo \er> acceptable to tho country, ifter the plain warning it Ims received on such unimpeachable autlionty " i /1 it " ' 1 A Navy Twice as Strong as Cermany. - < ' "'llio onlv answor noithy of Britiin loth as the mistiess of the sea and a a lover of peace, is to build a navy twico is strrtn» us Germany s, no matter what the cost/ , says the " Spectatoi " " Auything, uai>' ever, which seems like a claim to diotato, oven in th\J slightest degree, tho strength of tho German fleet is wholly unjustifiable Fortunately, it is not a claim made bv ( any serious persons hero All wo can do,' end all we havo a right to do—but ulso whit tte must do, unless, to borrow the Kaiser's phrase, we aro mad—is to insist thit wo must moot Germin compotvtion by appropriate ict'on—by increased shipbuilding and by improved naW oiganisatiou " On the Eve. Mr H TV Wilson.wntos in the November "Nitional Roview " an article ontftled "On the Evo," m which ho -ay* — " Tho most cntlcil moment in the history of tho British nation is drawing near In tho next few weeks and mouths it will bo determined whether the British Naw—tho dnlv forco which stands between the Empire and destruction —is to bo sacrificed once more to tho foolish and short-sighted demands of the pacifists Tho command of the sea is trembling in tho bahnce The next British naval programmo will show whether it is to be secured for tho British Navy or to be allowed , to pass for n centurj into the strong and do- i torminod hands of Germany " |