NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 56, 11 March 1910, Page 5

NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

'CABINET AND ADMIRALTY IN

AGREEMENT,

■"INSANE COMPETITION."

(Received March 11, 8:20 a.m.) LONDON, "March 10. The Times says that the fact that no echoes have been heard this year of the conflict between the Admiralty and Cabinet indicates that Cabinet accepted the Admiralty's proposals without cavil. The country willtherefore be slow, to take exception to the programme' and the comparatively small sums to T)e expended. The new construction suggests that about the spring of 1913 this will be satisfactory if Germany's is not appreciably advanced. The Times adds that the tenders for Colonial "Dreadnoughts" cruisers are presumably under consideration of the Colonial authorities, with whom., rather than with the Admiralty, the immediate initiative would seem to rest.

The Daily Chronicle says that the Estimates have "been framed dn an extravagant alarmist spirit. It is necessary to remember that as snips wear out Britain's superiority in pre-"Dreadnoughts" tends to deminisn.

The Daily News says that both Britain and Germany are witnessing a fierce struggle on the part of the rich to make the poor pay the price of this insane competition wTi'ieh leads to the creation of irritation, 'hates, and craven fears.