| Show GREAT BRITAIN GREATLY ALARMED Cause Calise Is Extraordinary Develop Development mont ment of Ability to Build Battleships Rapidly THE QUESTION OF STANDARD e 8 I or fit II iii Jt hut Thai It elf the titO Ot 01 One lAndon M March h 11 Th 1 ram I revelation by fret lord of the In toda today of Germany orman extraordinary do I In her r capacity to build big 1 to mark a l tn In naval Quite Quit certainly it will am e and nd alarm th the a su to tM the I of I maintaining naval supremacy fM It the eject w was electrical tilt the eel U the navy estimates wac 1111 con lu etI a harried meetIng was waa called or of ho Ill paUn the email M navy part perty St at tb the tJi thus ally Iy revealed Will w anxiously No decision wee Wall reached but the hd that little more wilt be heard award of t a far as tM the 11 navy ill ic concerned On the con It acorns m that Ute the government will III be III by t the major majorIty It Ity of own party to malt make the program for additional a an absolute building program It becomes III as Mr lr Balfour pointed u In toda today greatly the houlle houe a question not or of maintaining a but of maintaining a stand ord ard in I I 1 sam am forced eaid Id Mr Balfour to lo tM this that now for the th very fret time In modern we weare are race face to fact face with a naval situation No IfO new W and dangerous that it a is for u us to realise all It importe Mr fro Balfour declared that according to h hi Information which h he chal ed 4 Mr Mc nM to refute ne had hid down last year eight Dread and that thaI hp 1 In or of hr her program If I lerman d iii at th the same rate be said Id th the position fit at the two to nations In 1912 wull be II 31 or If Ih the imitated II her lOt of mu ma tonal for beforehand tar fler many would ba have J Air I thee fl ne beIng beyond con power hut lr r Ill ms that It 11 was difficult to tn discover whet tile the doln doing R The Th sensatIon caused a ud h by I the lie dle I In eli all th the editorials Wed d mornIn Irrespective of r TI TIe or organ n make a feeble et at attempt tempt to 10 Justify the government pro grain tee but with misgiving The Th matter wit 9 d III th the lobbies ebb or of the end the vary ery general opt opinion lon was Ra bold that the government MIld be obliged In III fit autumn to In induce t tb estimate aUIna for tor one or two conditional Dread The safety of the Mantle above all other anti no mat matur ur Irim what the cost the safety ft of tM tip country Inu StOat t he be asserTed Tills 1111 wu the ground upon which Reginald firM laM of the admiralty tM the increase ot of nearl In tit the navY estimate when they were I b by him In tIte tho house hoult of f common n t No one oDe could went on n Mr lr that the prea present mt govern the of estImates with a lI light ht heart but there a case when even eYen the mot determined economist would have to tomake make It 11 warn wa the speaker kr con continued that Britain should motto main Win a to eo en ensure sure u Britain shere from the empire from mood nd trade from durin during war ar The limits of the navy must bf be b by the progress ot of foreign power Several powers potI were rapidly their naval strength at t present but not on one oneat at a pAce to be com competed to GIMAN NIGHTMARE Mr explained that h he ic Germany Grman u a a standard b by which to measure mur British requirement only for tor arithmetical pu and he not presume to an any or of feel or opinion except one ott or of respectful admiration for live and The or of th the lay In tb the fact that It did not know th the rat at h herman w was going ott It estimated that II 11 Ocr man 1 arnt might be completed by tIll sea SUI against It 1 1 Dreadnought and four foul InvIncible whIch Great Gret Britain would woud have bY November 1511 1111 If Germany her construe work lb abs would have 17 ot of tho those abl ships by April of liU 1512 mat keat britain could not ord to 10 tilt rl risks and If she w was to bet het superiority tM the admiralty must be bein In a position to 10 th the lit r four additional Dreadnought l b by lilt thua thu giving Ot Great Britain 20 such uch v against nt Germa Germany ble bie 17 Mr eald d he red ored that th the maintenance of depended upon lit III tione ii H paid a trib ute Ut to th the extraordinary growth in III inthe tb the of ahl or of the al lie in ID lem Two TO year an ago 0 the there we were no ship ca capable of competing with th the British Dreadnought while today baa hs eral such weh v yea sole beside 01 tb three la in cour of con In 10 view of th there fact II If Ih the hou house approved p the U mir r dora would be liven van Jut Pd that Ihal four additional Dreadnought could uld It If be completed b by March frh of 1512 1112 It IS A J Balfour rollo followed with a h bitterly lIn the Program rm rU rUce He ce declared time of lb nav navy y t to tobe be Jf a national an and sold Id that tat th time ernnt program wu wee admitted tb III r or of this debate te au amid d d daled dapre istad aled the 14 that the got 0 Ift tb the national tt tu to ii a Iu ii It nl uI not 1 supposed h ton lIn that Ih the ie Iw and 00 u Oh SM II II d I I is rl g item i mien t lied hd ii me ii it i ii I Iu II hat liI ii hut lul II I it Ih ti net tr 1 I Ih I It I ii i I t p Ii u i till ii e I UI 10 oJ i III ri 1 I 11 IMd hod bean n rites hr 01 Ii 1 ra Nt lb nl i Ih lit it ass I intention f ru liter to 10 Ci Mud I II I the route uld Slot 1101 lo lothe n the house Heed based ott U lit mop t km that this d declamation was all in 10 lop t It meet however IN be admitted that arest BrItain no nn e noyed joyed the in 10 ship construction ahe th thought aha alt held and thin vat vall born bi 4 and expend Iture na as II a supreme necessity ot of na n whish the premier said he hoped parliament Dt would accept S |
