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BRITISH NAVAL SUPREMACY,

IS IT IN PERIL “

The periode (a), (b), and (e) include a large number of partially bolted shipt for Great Britain, whereas, Pranco and Germany have buen sigally justified by the batilo of Tenshima in adhoring to the policy of an armour bolt along the whole wata-line. The lesion of that battle points plainly and aunistakably to the fact laat it is suicidal, in fane of good gaunery. te sand cut ships

with large anarmoured purtisa in contact with the water-la. Not only are the fifton battleships of the Majestic nat

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classes the possessors of the 12-inch Mark VIII. guns on whose performances the fall fight of publicity was sleighteen months age, hat their armoured ends will conder

Mr. Caelyan, M.P. weites in the Daily Graphic Your Naval Correspondant is rendering a signal service to the country by ustim new situation orated by impressing on The Intest development in the designs of Freuch and German battleships. We stand at the part ing of the ways, ns ure didía the fifties, of ententes cordialo fame when international innketing was the ral, and France was par mittel. 1859, to crop up to a portion of

ality with practical equality

theen eur Navy Our a supremacy is vital to as for vil hout it the British; aut this death traps in a naval bat.

this romark applies to all our ships. Monbi become a are geographical of warlier data, Breulioults or no. Desad- expression. Tharators the question whether woughts, the gradual reconstruction of the are losing ground is one of parrot inport. Hets was demanded from the moment the ance. T

say that such and such compiantion is Admiralty dived the rs of the British praposterous is not cousinsing, For statesmen naval offers comerning the lettle of Tsushima. are falliable, and it is ret easy to forget that Tester of telling the country the truth an to both ir Hary

Remands on 15.

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Chamberlin emas, and Mr.eur sition, a bezus programi is insand by jast beford the Trasury and Admiratly, in which Treasury War, that u informals wer neded, is that predominant part ser Admiralty France, Russia, and Granny comland to does the window dressing, involving program. core Japan in 1997, and if we were al ware of six battleships and armoured ornisers with Frauen say four or five years henen, there i

for wo

wherins for the fouriem years would bone hinge fut the string of the Navy | coaling 1992 we la' down at the rate of six to present Germany pressing extravagant battleships and fortem craisers is two years,

or three time

Taking arred cessis only, wo Inid down in the six years ending 18), aur averages of tourly seven ha fis

and

Cruisers every two armoured res Though individual Strath of its undoubtedly makes up for want of sambers in battleships, it cannot possibly do so in cruisers. This latter been worldwide duties. the bulk of which are not actual fighting. but ujo of the antago that leads to surerasfal tight-

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Your Correspondent refers to a ronaut officia austin which pressed of bring out the fact that the preponderance of old cassols,

, which is so marked in our list of is oven to be found in the Britia list of first-class battleships. Incidentally your Best

to contributor, who is wall known to have studied the question of relative naval strength for uuny years, delected the omission of our maler first class battleship from than (fewman list He will be intenabił to hear that the moment to answer was nived, for which fls Admiralty was given plenty of time. I sent in a

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thin

glaring error. still awaiting an

112 1. 2n xuation

how an error of searly 17 per cent in the German battleship strength for the period 100%-7 inclusive, for battleships laid down er sure to be made. Surely should

er projected, Surely a responsible Cabinet anvi Bourd เ

have auxionsly considered the figures again and

I pat this question 16 his answer, which I give for what it is worth, is that all things are possible to an Admiralty which in Norenbor can pat forwaril a minimum programms of ight acarred shipa for thinking cailway Tang Shao vi lys sings informed the Britisa Lagation that ba years, and in July, after wing the Mentag Edict in raply this in morial for the provision reminds a reduction from sight to six, or posibly five, armoured reals, in face of an of fans will probably be issued, within thres meras, sanctioned-in' „May, of ki

KIVOR armoured ships on the part of Fraves and many is cliff sult to undersignal. Just as it is difficult to me, however, maks ons plain entament. This is got the list time that I have received an answer from the Admiralty characterised by cosmom of the truth.

I auit the the Admiralty are! within the rights in making it an invariable rule to give a little information as possible in alwer to inconvenient questions from 3. P's What Lord Truth is colleagues have got to be made to understand is that there is a

and perverting the truth.

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Pas policy of constand isregard of promises

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I pass from this pleasant subject, in order Lo dwell

the use of this dors after correcting it for the loss of the Montagu and for the oison of the Games battleship, The

covered us one of twenty-to years in quinqueonial periods from 18 for first- class but ships laid down by threat Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. H is thus open to anyone to reconstruct, the tab|- hy dodacting the ships of an older period as brolato, and so ascertain if we are retaining our position. Thus we can make compuisous for-

(a) Shipsss than twenty-two years old. (b) Ships less than severfan gears oli. i) Ships loss than twelve years old. (d) Ships less than seven years old,

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Batch of which is a network of mosuaS ADI Bowers--at fiwos all Linsu Ulings are mockeries upon whom very surface the sunlight lies like sas achtores the digt, at a tins, impresible and serene twiligh

15, the chorus of to the Navies of the world. We are certainly living in a fool's paradise if we imagine that in May. Funs imperyoly virid sight or som

from deep wouls or the bine flors of coppices thefixel proportion is being maintaineul. Our

maintinitsly complicated sound, some overwhelm- steam mercantile Karine dousiere e satisfactory because it maintain a currying head, so blessed Leno'i from the material ing hour or the fol of the wind on this fore. capacity equal to that of the rest of the world work will piores throne the les And it is combined. The Nacy defouling it must these things that are unforgetable, it is bliese steadily sink in its battleship strength from things that keep us going.

731 por gant to 37.5 per cent of the Navies of the thres strongest Towers, unless we sen prepared courageously to follow up constant policy of replacement of old foudage. The cue is really worse than I hare represented it to be, for all old French and Germau battleships are

ara systematically reconstructed, justifying their inclusion among ships of a more underu dais,' and I bare taken no account of the French and Germa

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