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THE MASTERY OF THE PACIFIC

WHAT ABOUT OURSELVES t

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By 1920 the British Empire will be con- fronted with a total of 51 Dreadnought JAPAN'S SHIPBUILDING. ships in the hands of the German Empire and its allies in the Mediterranean. This According to the Asahi Shimbun, means that we requiro, at a moderate esti- Baron Saito, the Japanese Minister of mate, sixty of these vessels for service in Marine, has informed the Budget Com- European waters alone. Of these we mittee in secret session that eight super-have, up to the present, provided for Dreadnought " battleships and eight battle cruisers, the first to be laid down in 1913, and the last to completed by 1020, represent the irreducible minimum of Japanese naval requirements.

Towards this

thirty, and we have seven years in which to lay down the rest. Granting that wer can spare the Lord Nelsons and a sufl cient number of King Edwards to match the Satsuma and Kashima classes of the It is impossible to say how a communica- Japanese, and that the Triumph and tion made in secret session can have Swiftauce and three Minotaurs will coun- found its way to the Press, but as, in terhalance the Kurama and Tsukuba Japan, the publication of anything af. classes, we still require twenty-one Dread- fecting the rational interest which the nought type ships to give us a numerical Government wish to keep secret is fel-equality in the Pacific. lowed by an invitation to "honourable editar" to visit "august prison," it is evident that, for some reason or another, the Government wishes thie estimate to be made public. The reason is, perhapa, not hard to guess. The Saionji Cabinet came into office on a programme of re- trenchment; but the programme of the "Genro," which is to secure the mastery of the Pacific for Japan, requires naval strength. The present moment of na- tional excitement over China is a favour-tery of the Pacific. able one for appealing to the nation to make the necessary sacrifices.

THE NEW NAVY OF JAPAN. Japan has laid down or completed since the war with Russia the following arm- oured ships:

Battleships. Completed. Ship. Displacement. Armament.

Tous,

Speed Knot 12 10in.... 201

16,200... 4 12in, 4 10in. 20

Batsuma... 19,500

Aki..

Kashitus Kator

Fato

412 in

Building.

30,000...

Kawachi 20,800...

Sette ...)

Isukuba

Tkon... Kurzma Thuld

Koago

www

12 6in.

P 14in.

12 12. 10 6in.

Battle-Cruleeré-Completed.

13,700 412in., 12 6in. 21

14,000... 4 12in., 8 in... 32

Building,

Hiyei Haruna Kirishima)

27,000... 8 14 16.6in.

number the Empire has at present the two Dominion ships, the Australia and New Zealand. That is to say, if the Baito pro- gramme is carried out, we ought to build forty-nine Dreadnoughts in seven pro- grammes if we wish to retain control of the lines of communication to India, South Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific Coast of Canada.

To load control of these communications. is to hand over to the Japanese the mas- No actual hárm might come of that. But it means that the British Empire would exist on suffer-

ance.

A CLEAR CALL TO THE DOMINIONE, The programme of two keols to one de- mands that we should lay down six ships a year. Indeed, I believe Mr. Alan Bur- goyne would say that it does not even de- mand this, since we bulid appreciably quicker than the Germans, and can thus reckon on seven programmes to their six, which entails six programmes of five ships and one of six, as against their six of three ships each. But, oven reckoning six a year for seven years, we should still be seven ships short of our minimum re quirements at the end of the period. And more than a two keels to one programme is hardly to be thought of.. It follows that the Dominions, which are, after all, vitally interested in this matter, must be called in to aid the Mother Navy, and Indis, too. The position is a wholly new -one. We have often been actually in- ferior at some point of contact, but the balance has been easily redressed by the concentration was complete. ...27 time our

Now, looking to the future, a time is ahead of us when, being locally inferior in a part of the world where we have most important interests, we shall not be able to move a ship to their support. If the Dominions will only consent to do what the Mother County does and contributo & pound a head per annum on their white. population, and it India, Ceylon, tho Straits Settlements, and Hongkong will contribute about two millions a year, in rough accordance with Captain Macau lay's scheme for a central fleet of battle ships, the danger of the future can be. But each and all must realise 1020, in which year six of the untebellum that the defence of the whole involves the battleships and seven armoured cruisers defence of the part. To possible rivals would still be available, leaving twenty-there must be opposed, not Great Britain seven to be built. If the alleged Saito and her "Colonies "a hen and her

be accepted, instead of

chickens-but the might of the British twenty-seven ships, Japan will have built Empire, one and indivisible.--Gerard thirty-one between the war and 1920, and

Fiennes in Pall Mall Gazette. these of the highest power-s, very material addition. It will be noticed that the date named for completion is again, roughly, that of the termination of the existing Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Japan,.

If Baron Saito's irreducible mini- man" be accepted, therefore, the Japan ese will have in 1990 fifteen battle-ships and sixteen battle-cruisers built since the war, with the whole of the Tsushima fleet and the Russian prizes behind them.

After the war a programme was adopted which was to give the Japanese twenty modern battleships and twenty armoured cruisers by 1915. Modern" was defined as meaning not more than twenty years Financial stress caused the post ponement of the year of completion till

old.

programme

-THE VALOUR OF IGNORANCE. It is this moment that the Democratio Convention of the United States chooses to give a thrilling exhibition of the velour of ignorance by proposing to refuse the assent of Congres to the two armoured. ships which it became the rule to lay down annually during Mr. Roosevelt's Presi dentship. Even with these, the Ameri- cans will be none too strong in 1980. The comparison will work out thus:-

U.S.A. Japan. Dreadnought type-

Battleships (14in, guns) 16 Battle cruisers,,

Total

Total

9

12

35

16.

91

Battleships (12in. guns). 8

8

Pre-Dreadnought type-

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King Edward VIL.)... 13

Battle cruisers

Total

13

37

31

Grand total

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