NAVAL MATTERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 1 November 1910, Page 5

NAVAL MATTERS.

THE COMMAND OF THE SEA. SOLE DETERRENT OF WAR. BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 31. Admiral Mahan, in an article in the Daily Mail, says an examination of the international situation shows the balance of the Triple Alliance outmatches the triple entente on land. The real offset of the military power of the Triple Alliance is the financial resources of France and the British Navy. Granted a continuance of the present laws of capture, the wonder is that intelligent Britisher's 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 of war. Owing to the adoption of Dreadnoughts, Germany has entered into the struggle for preponderance. When the ante-Dreadnoughts shall be confessed obsolete, with very little start against her, her only salvation from war is Britain's readiness for irar. THE GERMAN NAVY. REGRET AT HAVING FOLLOWED BRITAIN. BERLIN, Oct. 31. The Admiralty has furnished the Daily Mail correspondent with an official communication. It states that the construction of the 13J-inc"b. gun for the new British, ships was received in Germany with equanimity in view of the universal confidence in Germany's gun material. Wide sections of the population of Germany regret this new irtep along the path first trodden by England with the introduction of Dreadnoughts, since higher cost of construction is unavoidable. The Admiralty state they have 29 vessels in 1910, and the Budget order will, as usual, he completed in accordance with the naval law.