THE BRITISH NAVY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 24, 5 March 1914, Page 7

THE BRITISH NAVY.

CHARGE FROM GERMANY. HONEST EXAMPLE WANTED. jßy Cable.—'Press Association.—Copyright. BERLIN, March 4. Count yon Beventlow accuses the -British Admiralty of systematically understating the size of battleships', and adds that the German Jfevy has always followed approximately British displacement. Germany .will glaidly refrain from further increases or reductions if the British Admiralty will set a real and not a paper example. ~ ESTIMATES PASSED. LONDON, March 3. The Supplementary Naval Estimates were passed by the House of Commons.