NAVAL ARMAMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 498, 4 May 1909, Page 5

NAVAL ARMAMENTS.

GERMAN ALLIANCE. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S PROCRAMME. J SEVEN BIG SHIPS. IBrTILKIIUPIT—PRESS ASSOCIATION— CO PtttlQHT.) ' (Rec, May 3, 9.30 p.m.) ■ ■,'.'._. Vienna, May 3. The Vienna nowspapor "Ncue Freio Presßo" reports that Austria-Hungary is building, and will complete within two years, the following warships:— Dreadnoughts ... ... ... 4 ' Battleships ... ... ~) 3 Swift cruisers ... ... • '„[ 4 >-. t . Also, submarines. The throe, battleships mentioned after tho Dreadnoughts aro of the Franz' Ferdimad type. '■•/ ■:■■■■.:.■. . - ..-..■..:... MORE DREADNOUGHT DOCKS. .GERMAN ACTIVITY. . ■■.'■■•• Berlin, May ). Six more docks of a capacity sufficient to accommodate : Dreadnoughts will .be completed in Germany during 1910. . PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION BY MR. .))';..;■■ .-'.:. ■burns.---; ..' .'.•■■"■. ',j .GERMAN LABOTO LEADERS. { : ,;' ;, (Rec. May 4, .0.5 a.m.) . ■ .'.. ; ;': . London, May 3.: ■ At a dinner given in honour of: the German Labour-leaders, who are ; visiting Britain, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr.; John Burns, proposed "Anglo-GermaD Friendship.".' . ... .'".'■-. .■ . ' ; 1 Mr.;Burna urged as a duty. friendly co- ! operation; between ■Britain, Franco,- ■[ and Germany, the' three nations to whom be-' longed tho making of modern Europe. \' . '■:•■ AUSTRO-GERMAN SEA POWER. Estimates/of the. balanco of powerin DreadISI2 vary. The"Daily Mail" arguesjthat Mr. Asciuith's own figures indicate that in 1912 Britain -will have 20 Dread ' .noughts, to'. ,17. .If, AnsWa. Hungary's four Dreadnoughts referred to above are, added to Germany's, the two German Powers are, .on that. computation one.ahead of Britain. If the three AusS |ranz > Ferdinands -are added, • then the Gwman alliance is still farther ahead ; «w he ,,; :Pr A aDZ ,":Ferdinands/- '.according-■' to t i z w s i Anln,a V "PProsimate totheßritish Lord Nelsons.. The Lord Nelsons, whioh are sometimes .classified with the ■ Dreadnoughts £ ■nrst-olass, capital 'ships, have-.a tonnage of iAn . energetic ' Austrian Navy League is spurring on maritime ambition m that country.,, The President is tho heir to the S^&^Snt^ffins^r^