MISTERS VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN PARTY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 17 November 1928, Page 5

MISTERS VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN PARTY

EXTRAORDINARY DEBATE. 4 NEW GUINEA CRUISER, BERLIN, November 16. There was an extraordinary debate in the Reichstag to-day relating to the proposed new 10,000-t'on cruiser known as the “picket battle ship,” seeing the Chancellor and' th e three other socialist Ministers were instructed by their party that they must yot e condemning their own Cabinet’s action, while Herr Groener, Minister of War, whom no party wants to lose, declared he would not remain in the Government unless the motion was rejected, r Herr Gdoener said the cruiser you Id come within the Treaty ,of ■Versailles. A battle between armadas of heavy ships such as those participating at Jutland would never recur. Speed was the greatest need of the future. The proposed cruiser would he superior to any 10,000-tonner afloat, and a dangerous opponent to even a big battleship. The range of its artillery was thrice as long as the old German battleships. As the People’s, Centre and Democratic Parties have decided to support the cruiser, the rejection tomorrow of the Socialists’ mot r condemning it is assured, and the possibility of a Cabinet crisis made mlore remote.