RIVAL NAVIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 7

RIVAL NAVIES.

GERMANY ORDERS A BATTLESHIP. ' THIRD OF THE 1910 PROGRAMME. By Telegraph. -Presa Association.— Copyright. BERLIN, 14th April. Krupp's Uermania Yard, Kiel, has contracted to build the third battleship of Germany* 1910 piograinme. LONDON, 14th Aptit. The Berlin correspondent of The Times says that the new tJermnn battleship to be built at tho Uermama Yard represents the beginning of a batch of four Diendnoughts without awaiting possible improvement* in type; hence, arrangements are possible at any time for three of tho same typo to be hereafter embodied in the Estimates for the financial jvar. Germany now has 13 Dreadnoughts and four Invincible* built or building. FOUR AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS. TO BE COMPLETED BY 1913. VIENNA, 14tb April. Four Austrian Dreadnoughts will be completed by 1513. The preliminary work was arranged before the credits were granted by Parliament. AUSTRALIAN BATTLESHIPS. A QUESTION OF FLAGS. LONDON, 14th April. Replying in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. A. H. Burgoyne (Unionist member for North Kensington), tho First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. M'Kcnna, stated that the date ot laying the Australian and New Zealand battleships would bb settled by the contractors when the placing of the orders was confirmed. The First Lord added, in reply to a further question, that ships forming part of the Royal Navy would fly the Union Jack, and those forming part of the Australian unit would fly such Hag nn the Auttralian Government might detenmne. The displacement of tbo Aurtrian Dreadnought* will bo 19,286 tons ; LILT, (turbine*), 26,000, -to f>i\© a speed of 22 knot* ou trial j armament, ten 12in and twenty -four 4. lin guns ; cost, £2,125,000 each. The length will be 492 ft, tho beam 85ft 4in, and mean draught 26ft 3in. The German shipbuilding program. .10 for 1909-10 consists of three battleships —the Ersatzc Frithjof, Htimdal, and Hildebrand, the battleship cruiser H., two scout", twelve de. u tr«'yer?, ami a torpedo depot *bip.