BRITAIN & GERMANY.
RESPECTIVE NAVIES. "THE NEEDLE OF FACT." * _____ - A COMPARISON. Bj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 3rd November. Mr. George Lambert, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Wareham, said the panic with regard to the Navy would collapse upon application of the needle of fact. By 1912 the position in Dreadnoughts would bs :—: — Germany ... ... ... 13 Britain 20 In the following year tho numbers would be :—: — Germany ... ...» ... 17 ' Britain 25 In addition Britain would have two colonial Dreadnoughts completed by 1913. Mr. Lambert said Britain's pre-Dread-nought battleships carried 152 12in guns, compared with 40 llin guns on the German pre-Dreadnoughts. Mr. Balfour's talk of a naval loan, said Mr. Lambert, betokened a lack of confidence in tariff reform as a means of finding money. The speaker wished the Veto Conference would end and Parliament settle the navaJ standard and entrust the carrying out cf that standard to the Admiralty. This ' would banish the fever created by panic-mon-gering politicians.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1910, Page 7
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