GERMAN NAVY BILL.

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

GERMAN NAVY BILL.

TEN TO SIXTEEN PROPORTION

THE PRESS FAVOURABLE,

Berlin/ Feb. 9,

The Press largely accept Admiral yon Tirpitz's*margin of ten ships to Britain's sixteen.

Herr Per sins, writing in the ' 'Berliner Tageblatt," says that-the' declaration is a- complete breakaway from tlie" standpoint. • Though limitiation of armaments is impossible,- he points • out that it would; bes suicidal from Britain's standpoint to allow the , Germany Navy to grow relatively any stronger,'-and to prevent it the senseless system must be ended in no chaffer£pirjt; ■;' ■'■'.'::." ,■_ .^7," ■'■':.■.■ '[■.}-. '■■■'■';■ I ; The Liberal Tand Pinssb". wely; :;c<bmeyth©::pirop^s«l« of'^dmifa^ivOßsTirp'itz?as a": forerunner 'of naval i>eac^; -^ _-' papers are ' sceptical' in regard to the proposed rates1, an d declare "that they have no meaning %ithoiit^ guarantees regarding colonial I! Drea;dnoiights. ;3 • V :- ; The ' 'Reichsfeote" says it is a inißlak'e ;-to 'believe Britain "and Germany; can now The time is-too critical,1 vand;i;Britain's policy; is not';Ste^d| 'Jenougli for Germany to trust her across tho road. r v ■■' ::: y-.,r \ .'■ '-'"; ■ ; ''■- i

'■■^ They -'""I^aglischV R^ndscha'u^,! that Germany will only be sufficiently protected w-lien the proportion is 1$ to ■dne."'.'/:< ''.:^i .'■••.'; •■' ■'. ■;■;■.-:'V:::. '-'''' ' '■'■''".h'

The "Schlesische Zeitung" feays that Admiral, yon Tirpitz mado{. simply a friendly theoretical declaration.