BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13050, 9 March 1911, Page 4

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

THE THREATENED TRADE FRICTION. GERMAN SHIPBUILDING. [Press Association —Copyright.] London, March 7. The "Daily Mail" says it is not clear how Germany will retaliate on the British Shopping Week. Already with a 25 per cent tariff Germany has done her utmost to exclude* British goods. Mr McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Mr Robert V. Harcourt, Liberal member for Montrose Burghs, Raid that Germany, in the spring of 1913, would have 17 Dreadnoughts delivered, and assuming that' tho ships for 1911 were 12 of the programme, to be delivered in three years after authorisation, she would have 21 Dreadnoughts delivered in the spring of 1914.