MARINE SUPREMACY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 479, 12 April 1909, Page 5

MARINE SUPREMACY.

THE GERMAN CHALLENGE. PRESS PLEA FOR AN ARRANCEMENT. DISASTER THE ALTERNATIVE. (lit TJilEullAPH— I'ltEflM ASSOCIATION—COI'VttIUUT.) (Rec. April 11, 4.15 p.m.) , Berlin, April 10. Tho newspaper "Vorwarts" warns the majority ill the Reichstag that unless an agreement with Britain on naval armaments is reached, tlicro wi|l be a fearful disaster sooner or later. Tlio "Vossischo Zeitung" says that reasonable Germans are aware that, owing to hor colonies and commerce, Britain is bound to have, and will havo a superior navy, AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS. NEW FACTOR IN MEDITERRANEAN. (Rec. April 11, 4.30 p.m.) London, April 10. Tho "Spectator" reports that tho Austrian Dreadnoughts will possibly bo completed in 1911. In any event, they will causo tlio withdrawal from tho British North Soa fleet of four Dreadnoughts for permanent station in tho Mediterranean. FISHER DICTATORSHIP. THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUITY ENDANGERED. (Rec. April 11, 4.30 p.m.) London, April 10. "The Times," which has hitherto been a consistent supporter of tlio regimo of Admiral Sir John Fisher (First Sea Lord of tho Admiralty), alleges in a long artielo that ho has made the Admiralty a one-man Department, and has thus prevented continuity of naval policy.. , ADMIRAL BERESFORD. A NEW VIEW OF lIS TACTICS. London, April 9. Mr. W. T. Stead, writing in tlio "Iteview of Reviews," asserts that Lord. Charles Beresford was a trump card for the "Little Navy" party, who opposed tho building of extra Dreadnoughts. Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. LloydGeorgo, Mr. Stead says, constantly invoked Admiral Beresford, whether the latter knew it or not, in order to terroriso the Admiralty into an abandonment of its demand for eight ships of tho Dreadnought type. Like Lord Brassey, Lord Charlea Beresford desires moro ships of anotlior class.