THE NAVAL SITUATION.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 5

THE NAVAL SITUATION.

NAVY LEAGUE'S DEMAND:

TWO KEELS TO ONE

London, Feb. 9. The Navy League insigts on Britain maintaining the two keels to one standard. It states that Britain is not concerned with '■■ Germany alone. A powerful fleet of' ten-.Dreadnoughts would be commissioned in" the Mediterranean by the end of 1915, and Britain would need a one Power ■staiidard;theriei. The "Observer" insists on the standard of two keels to one, and adds that Admiral yon Tirpitz suggests a tem(>orar( yi settiftsment on G^rmany^jsri ■terms^- England's naval strength- will bt*, subject to widespread dispersion; ] whil^ Germany will concentrate in" the!' rNorth: Sea. - The only safe settlement | would; be between the Triplice•; and the! EntentD-r-nbt between England and; Germany alone.