BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10570, 11 February 1913, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

I —: — I KAVY LEAGU! DEMAND. 'United Press Assochn on. —By Elec trie Telegraph. —Copyright. Received February 10, 1 p.m. London, February 9. Tiie Navy League insists on Bri tain maintaining the two-heel standard. • It states that Britain is not concerned with Germany alone A powerful fleet of ten Dread noughts would be commissioned h the Mediterranean by the end o 1915 and Britain would need one Power standard there. London, February 10. The Daily"; Mail says that if Get many wishes to diminish naval com petition it means simply that as tin British programme is based on tin programme of the Triple Alliance if they reduce theirs the Britisl will automatically fall too. Beilin, February 10. The newspaper Kolnische Zeitnnj; declares that the so-called nava agreement is merely a platonic dej claration, unbinding yet removing naval rivalry from the category 'ol delicate questions and allowing tin governments to proceed with tin friendly discussion of other matters. Received February*!!, 10 a.m. ; Berlin, Fehruary_ 10. The newspapers are making e strong effort to induce the German Admiralty to regard the Dominions’ Dreadnoughts as within the sixteen ratio. Barons Brensiug and Reventlow maintain that three additional ’vessels are required above the fixed programme to constitute Germany’s relative ten vessels.