ARMAMENTS AND MEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 242, 29 September 1911, Page 5

ARMAMENTS AND MEN

INTERCHANGE OF OFFICERS

; I'lll:ss ASSOCIATION eorvlllGHT. 1

Ah Ibmirnc. Si pt. 28.

Hie Fed< rd Govt rnmeut have agreed to the suggest it.n made by ti.e New Z<--alatid Government that u'liilary officers be < xchanged, but m view o! the difficult:!** confronting f u<- Di li nee* Department in comiecin.u viith the mtioductiim of the n< vv ih lciice system it suggested thatthe-;.- slioul l m t cmnmcuee until the end of 1912. • BELGIAN RESERVISTS. Brussels, St pt. 28. Arrnngcim nts nave been made t-> disliand the emit ingi ni retained with the colours. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

PANAMA AND THE WORLD’S

PEACE

Ottawa. Sept. 28. Lord C harles Beresford, speaking at tlie Canadian Club in Victoria, said the opening of tlx* Panama Canal would evolve the greatest problems conceived, which the Englishspeaking nations would have a difficulty in solving. It was impossible to alter the strategical position of one hemisphere without altering that of the other. To alter the trade routes would involve a solution of problems on which would depend the peace of the vvoi<d. He criticised the Declaration of London as weaking the British naval organisation and lessening the protection of the trade* routes

FRENCH DESTROYERS COLLIDE.

Paris, Sept. 28.

The destroyers Mosqueton and Trident collided while manoeuvring at Toulon. The Mosqueton was wrecked and beached to prevent her from sinking.

SIX DESTROYERS FOR. CHIL-

(Received 29, 8.5 a.m.'

London. Sept. 2- ! ’.

Th<* “Daily News’’ states that Samuel White, of Cowes, has contracted for six destroyers for Chili, costing a million.