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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY MARCH 23 1008.

Intimations

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN

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"IM'ATRS.

2nd Austrin. gother, at the France, the

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SOME POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION. Before the Navy Estimates are published which will be at the beginning of next week there are certain points presenting themselves for consideration which have bardly as yet won suficient public recognition:

since the introduction of the new Gef Ever since! man Navy Dili, it has been a commonplace Great Britain

of English politics that we must shartly face a

large increase in the building vote. "Two

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of six Dreadnought ships by incumbeat upon us to krap power then the two, Form Oceans up the Straits which future will represent there the pay

andis four.

These remarks dispose of my two proba

| Dreadnought to Cermany's one is the for-itles. There remains what I have called

mule of the pacific Mr. Stead, which has tick possibility" only, though it is a possibility with a basis of realised fact. It la remarkable led the public ear by its fine swashbuckling that at least two, i if not more of the minor ring, but which does not, in point of fact, ex Powers of the world are having Dreadnoughts. press any reasoned estimate of our needs. Let built to their order. All authorities” seem, to us see, in the first place, how we shall stead in agree that three ato building in this country for 1915 ele-d-vin Germany alone. 1 choose the Brazil and two for Chill, the five ships being prac now to be ordered under the acceleration meat Mr. Alan Burgoyne, in the Navy League scheme of 1907 will be completed for sen, and Annual," inform us also, that "two battleships

“HESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama 'harbour and the attention of year:1975 because it is that in 'which'the ship tically identical in tonnage, speed, and arma-> TH

Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking

and repairing Yousols and Machinery of every description.

The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always (at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE? "PRINZ REGENT LUITFOLD About WEDNESDAY, Lloyds' surveyors).

and YOKOHAMA

Capt. H. Kirchner .....................

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25th March,

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Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of

is a date selected by Germany for a good and sufficient reason, which will sharily appear.

The German shipbuilding yards, engineer ing, armour plate, and ordnance factories are capable of turning out a battleship completely equipped for sea in three years'; our own can

therefore, the two Powers were to start level

of the largest size are said to have been ordered Republic has three battleships of a modified in England for China, and that the Argentine:

Lord Nelson type projected. Be this as it may this country cannot afford to disregard the pos sersion of these ships by the smaller Powers,

"Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay," The floating derick is capable perform a similar task in Two.. Supposing it a big Power ja in oned of a sudden rain

of lifting 35 tobs."

Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roots, Bridge Dreadnoughts and one Invincible contem -Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the promises.

this year, Germany laying down the three plated by the Navy" Act, and completing them in three years, while Great Britain years, and laid down three" Capital" ship

Tenders will be made op, when required and the workmanship and material will be kept the even tenor of the last two

American Republic open to "deal," if it= forcement of its navy, there is always a South happen to possess ships of sufficient value witness the purchase of the Kasuga and Niskin by the Japanese, of the Triumph and Swiftsure by ourselves, exercising our right of pre-emption to prevent their falling

The cost of.Docking, aäd-repair work,"wi}} be found to compare favourably with that per annum, completing them in two years, the into the bands of another Power, and so on."

PRINZ LUDWIⱭ" vereistöven Capt. Fv. Binzer

FRIDAY,

5 F.M. 27th March. Daranised.

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`GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 21st March, 1968,

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score in 1915 would stand thus ;- i

Capital Ships. Laid Down in 1908 and

Subsequently..

Dreadnoughts.....

Invincibles ...............

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Great Britain.

Total........

15.

Germany.

12

4

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To them must be added all ships approxi*- mately of the Dreadnought value complete, completing, or building at the present date, The account stands thus :-

Great Britain. Germany Dreadnoughts (completed), 3 Dreadnoughts (building)....6

•Invincibles (completed) Invincibles (building)

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It may, of course, be that the improved pros. pects of the Fanama Canal, scheme, or the rika of Japan, or the suspected ambitions of Germany have impressed upon Brazil and Chill the need of maintaining powerful fleets of modern vessels. But there are certain sharp rivairios ever work sinong the greater. Powers of the world which lead to the suspicion that the ostensible destination of thers vortele. ti pot the real one.

Such, I think, are the factors which underlie

future standard of naval strength to be maintained by this country for the next five years: The situation may, perhaps, be summed tatablishment of an adequate Far Eastern up as follows: That, after providing for the

Fleet, we must possess in Europeza walgis a... foice sufficient to deal effectually with a com- bination of the two European Powers, Dext in strength to ourselves, the Natives of the Ger man and Austro-Hungarian Empires being counted as one. Moreover, we muit ilways keep "a bit in hand" to provide against the- contingency of modern ships of the highest power built for some of the lesser States past →Hogist the bands of a rival---

Total 12 ships. ships I have included the Lord Nelsons in our total, since they embody the all-big-guo idea, and raak with the French Danions and Japanese Saxumar, which unquestionably belong to the CO.readnought era."

In 1915, then, on the above basis, Great Bri The task is a formidable one; but, fortunals. tain would possess twenty-seven Dreadnoughtly, the nation has a reserve, secured to it by the ships against twenty-one possessed by, Ger unflinching checking of waste by the present many. To ships of the second line our super Board of Admiralty, and that which immediately iarity is so enormous that this modest superiori preceded it under Lord Cawdor. When Sir ty of six Dreadnoughts,might, fairly he čossi John Fisher ruthlessly struck out of the dered sufficiant as against Germany, alone. Estimates every penny which its sponsor could Probably if we reverted to the Cawdor estimate not prove to contribute directly to the fighting of four large armoured ships a year, we should, of the Fleet and its instant readiness for war," ia 1915, be well up to the two-Power standard, he went a long way towards enabling, the na

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The first "probability" is one on which the Germans are openly and deliberately counting —namely, that in 1915, when the term of our

teconstitute our Far Eastern Fleet with a treaty with Japan runs, eat, we shall have to strong division of battleships. The good will of our ally is not in doubt; but provocation may possibly come from the While Man which will make the presence of a squadron of the "best negotiators in the world" desirable in the interests of peace,

Japan has, at present two ships of Dread Bought value completed (Satsuma and Aki), and has two, or, according to some authorities, four, more building, as well as some extremely powerful armoured cruisers. To credit her with the possession of twelve Dreadnought ships at the beginning of 1915 will certainly not be an excentive estimate. Unless Japan should encounter a wholly unlikely catastrophe between now and then, it is obvious that the reconstituted battle squadron, in the Far East must use up the whole of our margin of Dreadnoughts.

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It is impossible. 'to say definitely; maritime tion to provide for the pending increase in Powers are apt to be, freakish in their building construction without taking upon its shoulders programmes. But, `lo^a nituation. fall of Imau unprecedented burden. The Naval Estimates ponderable elements, there are two probabilities for 1904-5 stood at £36,500,000; last year they and one possibilliy which forbid us to hope stood at £31,400,000. Of this that we can remain free from the necessity of three and a brif millions represents money increased expenditure.

taved which was absolutely wanted previously in dockyard extravagance, repairs to worthless ships, maintenance or service of a crowd of flat-iron" and "bug-traps," too weak to fight,"

the cost of a Dreadnought, completed for ses, and too slow to run away, and so on. Now, is about £1,800,005, and the time occupied in her construction is two years, Three millions and a half a year in, therefore, almost exactly, the sum needed to provide for the lying down of two-Dreadnoughts annually and their com- plation at the end of the second year. On the basis of the last two programmes plus thran and a half millions, then, provision can be made for laying down five Dreadnoughts an- nually. But as it is understood that the normal sum allocated for new construction in this year car-marked for a cruiser and destroyer 'pro- gramme, we can afford to be content with the commencemeat of two Dreadnought the in- stalments for which, payable within the coming Gnancial year, would perhaps amount to a fraction under two millions. By laying dowa two Dreadnoughts this year, and then five every your up to 1912-13, we shall possesa in commis- Next in importance to the Far East comes. sion, by the spring of 1915, thirty-four ships of the question of the Mediterranean. Without the Dreadnought'valde, an against twenty-one going at length into the knotty, problems of possessed by Germany, and possibly twenty- Mediterranean politics, I desire to draw public seven possessed by Germany and Austra attention to the recent growth of the Austro-Hungary combined. As a mere civilian stod. Hungarian navy, on which my second pro ent of suval affairs, I am not prepared to say bability" is based. Up to the beginning of the whether this is, or is not, a sufficient provision century, Austria-Hungary was content to build for our safety. That is for the professional ad- small battleships of the coast defence order, visers of the Government to determine. I am ranging from 5,000 up to 8,000 tons, and of ex- content to point out that, thanks to ita fa tremely small radius of action. Now, however, sighted seam-statesmas, the nation can she has bearing completion three battleships of contemplate the game of beggar-my-neighbour 10,000tons, somewhat superior in fighting capace which it has pleased the German Government ity to the German Wittelsbach class, or our new to joangorate without dismay-Pall Mall Triumph and Swiftsure, with a coal capacity of Gaulle, 1,400 tons; while three more ships have been laid dows, of 14,500 tons or above, which embody the Dreadnought idea. Rumour-which may Or may not be correct-his it that a desiga for au avan larger and more powerfully armed ship has been substitated, which is to be Fidentical in armament with the - German" Ersatz Bayern. These ships are all to be completed by 1912; but the intention of Austria-Hungary to persist in building 'op powarial modern feet may be gathered from the fact that it is proposed to double the perionuri of the navy at once.

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