NAVAL DEFENCE
GERMANY'S LATEST DESIRES. BELIEF IN ENGLISH DIFFICULTIES, CTlmes and Sydney Son Services.) BERLIN. July 8. Germany’s last naval surprise indicates the desire to increase the personnel of the navy before another increase Is made In the peace strength of the army. It is also believed in Germany that England’s difficulties In securing men for the navy are considerable, and will become more serious. NEW FINANCE SCHEME FOR NAVAL EXPANSION. BERLIN, July S, Received July 9, 1L45 p.m. The Cologne Volks Zetxmg hints that the Kaiser’s action in promoting Herr Kuhn as Secretary of the Imperial Treasury with the rank of Prussian Minister Is directly connected with a great and new financial programme for. naval expansion. The Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination is regarded in some quarters as a weakening effect on Austria’s war establishment and Germany is therefore compelled to prepare to bear singlebanded the brunt of a central European struggle.
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Southland Times, Issue 17699, 10 July 1914, Page 5
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151NAVAL DEFENCE Southland Times, Issue 17699, 10 July 1914, Page 5
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