NAVAL ARMAMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 7

NAVAL ARMAMENTS.

COLLIERY STRIKE. GERMAN NATIONAL LIBERALS. By TeleeraT>h-.Presa Aseociation-OoDyrleht. Berlin, March 8. The new battleship Posen (18,307 tons, carrying twelve 11-inch guns) was seriously damaged by fire at Kiel. The repairs will occupy several weeks. Berlin, March 8. Herr Basscrman, Leader of the National Liberals, during the Navy debate, said it was not Germany's fault that the size of vessels was constantly increasing. The Navy League, which was also the home of the National Liberals, had, out of regard for the empire's finances, dropped its demand for the construction of ships over and above the provisions of the navy law. ' . DOMINION DREADNOUGHTS, DO THEY COUNT FOR TWO-POWER STANDARD? ; A MINISTER SIDE-STEPS. (Eeo. March 9, 10.45 p.m.) . : , London, March 9. In the House of Commons, Mr. A. Burgoyne (Unionist) asked whether the Ad : iniralty considered the Australian • and the New Zealand Dreadnoughts a part of the fleet for the purposes of a war in metropolitan waters, and whether the Admiralty, included them in calculating the two-Power standard. , The First Lord of < the Admiralty, Mr. M'Kenna, replied that he was unable, to 'answer a hypothetical question which depended upon what would be the strongest Power' when, the second of the two battleships referred to is finished. .