GERMANY NOT SECOND.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XL, Issue XL, 27 January 1911, Page 4

GERMANY NOT SECOND.

Great Britain Outpaced in Warship Building. The New York Tribune announces that the Intelligence Office ofthe Navy Department at Washington has prepared an annual statement showing the strength in warships of the principal countries of the world. According toits statement, Germany has during the past year outdistanced all competitors in the percentage of increase. The Tribune writer says:— " The German navy has made a decided stride to equality with the British navy, although the scare which the Britons received from Germany last winter led them to adopt urgent measures." The report of the Intelligence Office declares that the German navy gained during the past year nearly 20 per cent in total tonnage, while Great

Britain gained 11 per cent. Germany possesses in completed and partially constructed warships a tonnage of 354,145—a gain of 143,153 tons, while Great Britain possesses 415,488 tons — a .gain of 167,965 tons; The Tribune continues:— " Many experts believe that Germany's remarkable gain in tonnage entitle her to rank second among the navies of the world, dropping the United States, which last year was second, to third place." j I