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Show GERMANY 11H Going Ahead in Construction of Fighting Machines Regardless Regard-less of Other Powers. KAISER DETERMINED UPON HAYING A BIG NAVY Striking Figures Indicative of Acceleration in' Constructing Construct-ing German Fleet. BY MALCOLM OLARKE. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN", March V2. Now that, the election in Groat Britain is over and the German bojzcy is not necessary for campaign purposes, it is found that tho whole idea of the German navy outstripping out-stripping that of Great Britain was preposterous as was in fact repeatedly pointed out by naval experts here. A well known German naval authority in speaking of the silualiou,. said to me recently: "Germany is goinc ahead with her naval programme regardless of Great Britain or any other power. German interests deinaud that wo shall have a. powerful naval force and we are getting it. That' it will be eo,unl in power to that of Great Britain is absurd. According to tho German naval na-val programme, -we will havo in 1020 fifty-eight armored ships of tho lirst class, that is. ships which would fight in the first line of battle. At her present pres-ent rate of building, the United Status will have fifty-four ships of the same class and Fniuco will have forty-five. Great JJritaiu's lirst-class battleship and armored cruiser streugth in 30"0 will be Ui! units, equal to the combined com-bined forco of Germany and the United States. So von see Great Britain has no cause to bo greatly alarmed." New German Naval Bapc. Plans for the new German naval base at "Bruusbuttol. t the western end of the Kaiser Wilholm canal, are completed, com-pleted, aud ivork is to bo begun immediately. imme-diately. The total cost will be about 30.000,000 marks. The work will require, re-quire, many years, and when finished tho new uaval base will be the greatest on the North sea. It is intended to rank with Kiel, with its great natural harbor, at the northeastern eud of the canal. There has just been published some striking official figures indicative of the acceleration in tbc construction of tho German fleet. The number of workmen employed in the imperial dockyards dock-yards has risen from 19.SG9 iu 1002 to 2b',90S. The Kiel yards lead with SoOO men. At Wilhelnishavcn Mo-l- aro employed, em-ployed, and at Danzig 3300. The torpedo tor-pedo -works at Friedriclvsort employ 1555 men. and there arc 2126 at tho artillery ammunition and store depots. The wages disbursed n tueso various establishments have iucroased from $5,750,000 in 1002 to $S.2nO.O00. Those figures, of course, do uot .iucludc the staflV of the enormous private dockyards which arc co-operating with the ini-1 perial yards in the creation of Germany's Ger-many's new. fleet. Editor Causes Sensation, llerr TUuxinilllnn Harden, editor of VJie Zukuuft. who , Is generally believed to represent the progressive clement hi Germany, delivered a. lecture hero ro-ccntly ro-ccntly which has caused something of a sehsaiion. Ills subject was the slc-nlllcarce slc-nlllcarce of the English ejections for Germany, and he argued Hull the sole Idea governing those elections wus tho probability of and the preparation for a war with Germany. Tho lecturer proceeded pro-ceeded to urge the necessity of an arum,-meiu arum,-meiu liuillallon agreement between both nations on condition that England stopped halting Germany and Germany Indemnified England for diminishing the hitter's maritime supremacy. Then came the sensational statement that Germany would be ready to allow England to annex an-nex the Congo state and the Island of Crete in exchange for Urltifili friendship, llerr Warden's known close relationship with authoritative ttcrllu circles added weight, lo tills suggestion, which sonic believe reflected the foreign office viowu. Commercial Treaty Likely, ltcports purporting lo be well founded ire. In circulation here to the effect that Count Mettornich, the Gorman embassador embas-sador in London, recently recommended lo llio .Gui'auui Xorci,,ttC!!:t Utc ad visa.- bility of arranglntr a long-term commercial commer-cial treaty with England while it could yet be effected on :i free trade basis. Inquiries, In-quiries, have elicited that Count Mcttcr-nich's Mcttcr-nich's personal view is that It would bo desirable to exchange, tho present year-to-year modus Vivendi by which Anglo-German Anglo-German tiv.de relations are regulated for some more permanent urrangement. Tie has not yet embodied this suggestion in any commercial renort to the German government. That lie has not done 30 may be taken as an Indication that he does uot consider the tlmo yet ripe for him officially as embassador to recommend recom-mend the opening of negotiations with tho British government, to this end. Insured Against Assassination. Prince Henry of Prussia, who is now in London, is probably th only man royalist or commoner In tb world who is insured against assassination. lie lias an insurance of a sum approaching i.'200.000 against being killed by the hand of un usfassln. This .policy wan taken some years ago. when the prince took command of the German lleot In Chinese waters. The risk Is held solely by German Ger-man companies. It is probable that the Gciman cavalry saber will shortly disappear, and h- replaced re-placed by a new short 3ldc arm. which con bo used an n havonct with the new pattern cavalry carbine. Acroplano War Machine. The kaiser is said to have become convinced con-vinced of the efficacy of the ueroplanc ;is a war machine, and has ordered as many officers of the German army na possible to learn to llv. OrvJIle Wright's German pupil. Caplaln Engolhnult. will begin the nystcmatie Instruction of a number of German officers for this purpose. pur-pose. Wireless telegraphy has made such orogress in the Gorman navy, owing to Improvements in the apparatus that the admiralty officials have now decided to abollsli the carrier pigeon service. All the battleships and even tho torpedo boats arc now fitted' with wireless telegraphy teleg-raphy instruments. |