THE NAVAL CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3160, 12 April 1909, Page 5

THE NAVAL CRISIS.

A "IKUMP CARD." LONDON, April 9. Mr W. T. Stead, writing in the "Review of Reviews," asserts that Lord Charles Beresford was a trump card for the "Little Navy" party, who opposed the building of extra Dreadnoughts. Mr Winston -Churchill and Mr Uoyd-George, Mr Stead says, constantly invoked Admiral Beresford, whether the latter knew it or not, in drderto terrorise the Admiralty into an abandonment of its demands for eight ships of the Dreadnought type. Like Lord Brassey, Lord Charles Beresford desires more ships of another class. _ . THE AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS. Received April 11, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, April 10. The "Spectator" reports that the Austrian Dreadnoughts will possibly be completed in 1911. In any event tbey will cause the withdrawal from the British North Sea fleet of four Dreadnoughts for permanent station in the' Mediterranean

A WARNING. Received April 11, 4.30 p.m. BERLIN, April 10. The newspaper "Vorwarts" warns the majority in the Reichstag that unless an agreement with Britain on naval armaments is reached there will be a fearful disaster sooi.er or later. The "Vossiche Zeitunp" says that reasonable Germans are aware that owing to her colonies and commerce Britain was bound to have and will have a superior navy.