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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 7

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NAVIES FOR THE DAUGHTER NATIONS SIR W. LAURIER'S DEFENCE. EMPIRE AND RESPONSIBILITIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) - (Rec. November 16, 11,30 p.m.) ; Ottawa, November 16. .Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minis- . ier, speaking in the debate on the Address-in-Reply, 6aid Parliament was'unanimously committed to the organisation of a Canadian Navy. It seemed to him that Australia- and New, Zealand would como round;to the Canadian view. He added:— "Tho Empire will only , remain strong, not by telling the daughter nations to revolve like satellites around the Motherland, but by allowing each to develop to tho fullest, so as to be a strength to the whole." .'.. Itoferring to the opposition of the Leader of tho Quebec Conservatives, Mr. F. D. Monk— who is declared to have only five adherentsSir WilfridLaurier strongly' criticised' Mr. Monk's attitude in Overlooking; tho duties and responsibilities of Canadians, as Britishers, towards the Empire. • THE BRITISH SUPER.DREADNOUGHTS. WHERE TIIEY ARE TO BE BUILT. ■ : (Rec. November 16, 10.55 p.m.) London, November 10. Of the four "extra" Dreadnoughts, the three -battleships will be built at tte.Elswick, Clydebank, and Yarrow yards, and the 'cruiser at Elswick or by. Walker, and. Company, of Chapstow. ' > CRITICS DIFFER. ' That naval critics, as'well as'doctors*, diffor, is proved by the following criticism by Mr. Alan Burgoyno of a. recent article by Mr. H. i ■ . •n' " le "Daily Mail" naval writer. The subject is Germaii and British Dreadnoughts.' •Hie "Daily Mail" thus summarises. Mr. Bur goyhe's criticism of its critic:— , - : ■ Irt the first place, ho says, tho Essatz Siegfried is building at Kiel, not Hamburg. In the second place, ho denies that England has been . marking time" since the construction of the original Dreadnought. ; Comparing the Dreadnought and the Neptune, the length of tho British 12-inch guns has risen from 45 to 60 calibres, the secondary battery from 12-pound-ers to 30-pounders;. and the displacement from 17,900 to 20,250, tons. Thirdly, it is not correct to say. that, five Nassaus have been followed by sis Super : Droadnouglits,. "which are now actu* ■ally in- hand," as the .Nassaus, number only four, and itwo of the six Super-Dreadnoughts hftve not yet been commenced. . Fourthly, details of them <havc not been withheld, but have been published iii the German press.; Fifthly, only the two ships not yet commenced will have .'turbine engines. Sixthly, they are not Shper-Dreadnoilghts at'all, as they have ■ two. fewer 12-iiifch guns on the broadside than /the .American Wyoming and Arkansas. Seventhly, to say that the German Squadron of Dreadnoughts is superior to the British suggests that Sir Philip Watts's hand: and brain have lost their cunning. ■ \ ' ■: ' ■ • Finally, when tlie statement was.made that the latest German Small cruiser Mainz has obtained a speed of 27 knots,,while small cruisers of only 25 knots are being laid down' for tho British Navy, misconceptions would have beeh removed had it been' added-that the. Mainz was blily- designed for a speed of 25 knots and thb Boadiceai-the first of our ships to bo completed, lias attained 27.9 knots on trial. :