ENGLANDS FIFTH DREADNOUGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 3

ENGLANDS FIFTH DREADNOUGHT.

NEW SHIP TO BE JJUILT WITH ALL SPEED. HAGUE FAILURE. London, September 10. Orders have Imvii received by the admiral Miperintendeitt, at Devonpmt Dockyard to lay down at once a battleship of 20.(1(10 t»>ns to carry an armament of eight l:U guns, 'l'li;- Admiralty instructions an; vorv urgent 011 the point that work must lie begun at omr and pushed wit It all possible haste, and it is probably that Unfailing of 'Die Hague Conference U responsible for this change of programme It is supposed that this battleship is the fifth Dreadnought in the original naval programme. It will be reinem- ] bored that it was announced that thisi ship would not )m» built until the result 1 of Hie Hague Conference; was known. j The new battleship will be greater . and more powerful than the Dread- , nought and her sister ships, tin; BelJero- \ phnu and Temeraire. The Beller ophnn ; Fra ß * a displacement of 18.500 tons, and , •nrries ten 12-inch guns, and the Teme- , raiie. the latest of the class to be lauiK'licd. has a displacement of 18,000 I"ih. and carries the same main armament. A fourth ship of flic class, to be nnnicd the Superb, is building at El wick. ft was not originally intended that the aie-t Dreadnought- should lie laid down ' H'fnre November. t Nearly <1 million trees have been plant- 1< id by the Lords unemployed on bleak aoors ia the Washburn Valley, p