THE NAVY

Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 6

THE NAVY

THE GERMAN ADMIRALTY VIEW.

DOES NOT FEAR THE NEW GUN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

BERLIN, October 31.

The German Admiralty has supplied the ‘Daily Mail’s’ correspondent with an important official communic'ation. This states that the guns on the latest British ships are received in Germany with equanimity, in view of the universal confidence in Germany’s gun material. Wide sections, however, of the German people regret the new step taken along the path first trodden by England with the introduction of Dreadnoughts, as a higher cost in construction is unavoidable. The Admiralty adds that it has twenty vessels of the 1910 Budget ordered, as usual, and that they will be completed in accordance with the naval law.

THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.

THE SOLE DETERRENT TO WAR.

LONDON, October 31,

In the'course of a further article in the ‘Daily Mail,’ Captain Mahan (the American naval expert) says that an examination of the international situation shows that the balance of the Triple Alliance outmatches the triple entente on land, but a real off-eet to the military power of the Triple Alliance is the financial resources of Prance and the British Navy. Granted a continuation of the present laws of capture, the wonder is that intelligent Britishers advocate immunity from the incidence of war for seaborne commerce under the delusive definition of private property. Britain’s command of the seas is the sole deterrent to war. Owing to Great Britain’s adoption of Dreadnoughts, Germany has entered on a struggle for preponderance. When all Great Britain’s antiDreadnoughts shall bo confessed to bo obsolete, there will be very little start against Germany. Then the only salvation from war will bo Great Britain’s readiness for