Show CONCERN ABOUT GERMAN fERMAN NAVY Ample Confirmation That New I 1 Bill Bi Will Wi Go Before Reichstag P PLANS S CAU CAUSE E SPECULATION e rl t i l I l lii S CUI Curried Carried d Out Would InbI ci'S ciS Navy a lo to Point of oC Dangerous s London Jul July Ample Ample confirmation confirma tion lon Is now on hand for the lie report port that thata a now navy bill bi will wI be bc Introduced In time tho during Uio ho coming coining fall se session slon anti and that the thc government encouraged en- en by hy time the acceptance of or theIU the IU navy bill bi last session will wi go 10 thc about accomplishments of Its Is plans In itt even evena a bolder holdel fashion than hint was the tIme ca cast o l' Inthe in imm inthe the course of tho lie last parliamentary cop conflict CL tIme tha opponents of or naval expansion Tho Time X Navy league and Its HI adherents appear confident of ur success suc site cess ces and ami 11 while until a l few weeks ago ngo the they denied or ot at ot least failed toc to c rumors regarding these plans for ot time the future th they are e now frank mik II in iii their admission o of projects which if I carried out will ivill wil bring Germany In navy to a point of or strength and efficiency ef cf- ii ma may many cause quite finite sonic some om S speculation among along the other oilier European 1 powers It i Is IR evident however ho that the time opponents opponents op op- of tIme the N Navy n Ica leagues league's plan ha have havethe the Lime of if tIme the German arlan people on flu 01 their side Quite n it stir h and amid a u t good deal of oC ra favorable comment has ban hat born occa occasioned by a warning article artcle in iti II ilu II I c an aim al or organ an which cannot be o of radical tendencies c cies eis but lut which is l' l considered a t Irti-t- worthy representative of the tho SOl sound oui 11 se sense s o of the lie taxpaying middle classo- classo tas The Time paper concludes Its Js article h by b remarking re re- re- re marking that the naval na al expansionist arc nIe making unreasonable demand demand- which must mUIL necessarily excite keen lii must amon among tug mod moderate rate 0 German ii pol politicians i Vhal E Intimates I It I t is announced time the pap points out I hat Ihal time the naval cat estimate estimate- next year car will wi pro ll provide the time first t instalments ments for fol the limo construction of two battleships bat hat one lie lne heat first class armored crul cruiser cr two small smal cruisers anti and ant two lv iv divisions of torpedo boats The lie t lm iv new battleships ore are intended lo to alt tak the thc place of or time the obsolete wat Baden and The he naval estimates will wl thus remain with in the limits prescribed by hy the thC u. u act acl of 19 1900 O. O The hc I surmises that t thc lie new navy bill hi to tn be he a introduced next session will wi il provid for rOl tho the o of seven sc smal mat cruisers provision for which th the government gov desired to include luthe Inthe Nav act o of 1901 1000 1901 The rime however rejected the time clauses providing plo for si bis large cruisers and amid seven small smal ers The h newspaper intimates that pro pro- io vision tile the construction of oC seven sc cn cruisers cruIser i be the lie proposals als of the Iho forthcoming nav bill bi which will probably contain oth more Important proposals for increasing increasing US' US In ing the thc fleet Heet Deny Japan lb 15 I II l The rite recent nt contained Ifa ir it ira ita a number of or Japanese le newspaper newspaper- concerning the tIme alleged existence ol ul financial troubles in Imi Japan arc are ed oil absolutely untrue In an statement Issued by the time Japanese embassy em bass bassy here The he lIka Mikado's os o's diplomatic hero lucre point out that lint were vete there actually any dan danger l in ium ji 1 financial sense to be hc these journals w would ull be Ic among amons the first to acquiesce in the time proposition that Irresponsible criticism of the lit governments government's Jo policy would be he productive the tive of or little good and amid very possibly might give rise to a great deal ol ot harm haim The statement tho the true truc motive mol c as of or au an an until cly political 1101 poli ticul character and ami the time value of or the complaints m made le must be bc estimated accordingly As a matter of fact L so o far fUI from fromn it heln being probable that there thelo will wi beas be lie lieas as as has hos been heen EU suggested by time the cabinets cabinet's cab cab- inet's critics a critics a considerable deficiency nt nL the end of the thc current fiscal year eal th the lie Japanese government anticipates a lar large e surplus In Iii th the lie budget of ur time the present yett e enn and nn although the te budget for fOI the lie next financial year car has hams not tint yet ct been Icen prepared the lie government gu Is absolutely absolutely ab nh- confident that b by utilizing tills this surplus It t will vill wi be Ic able to meet the cx- cx of or the coming year yeah without floating any public loan baum Tho Time mischievous mischievous mis mis- chievous reports spread by the lie tle anti anti- Cabinet press that a 1 fresh loan will trill willbe wi be he Inevitable lable Ine are arc therefore entirely devoid le 0 of foundation and auml It I says ays much for 1 the thc perfect freedom nowadays nowa cil the thc of or days das enjo enjoyed by imy newspapers Japan that hitherto no serious notice has been In high places plaes of oC t the lie 1 misstatements of some of their thou num nUI- nUI bee ber Suu S ul b is Frances France's tariff with wih Switzerland has not nol yet J reached the stage where a set settlement tom nt seems scorns at hand Time The trouble 1 is about silk an aim Industry of the he utmost to France which has to be he protected at atun un tiny any cost cost Switzerland makes silk sik fabrics auld and has ha hitherto been heen to do some ome trade with wih France Francein in iii t sues is-sues suc admitted clI at fairly moderate duties which Fiance Iranee would have hn c laid had hac no rio desire to Increase an and amid which were sufficiently high for Cor their purpose If IC Switzerland In her hel new commercial treaty meaty wih with Germany had not nol consented consent consent- ed ell to pay Germany an ati average uVelse iut duty on oil silk sik goods amounting to mote than tho lie highest French Impost Germany German obtained this hits concession I front from Switzerland tl by hy agreeing to differentiate dIr dif lC- lC im Irr 11 favor ra or of or ceria certain 11 other Swiss products product and amid against th the saute same fante Imports from France To give one Cne In In- In stance cattle catto I reared eared on high altitudes arc admitted Into Germany at a duty than tho those o on omi tho the plains it a i subtle distinction difficult to under under- r- r stand but hut valuable to the lie Swiss mountaineer farm farmer I France objects to this and other but biL she sho objects mO more strongly HI MII to lo Germany Germany Ger Ger- many being leing allowed to obtain mOI more e protection for rOI oi her hel silk slik sik In Industry In- In dust against Switzerland than she herself haw has got oL i j A tremendous effort i is iM hein being made mado In Itu Germany German at nl the time lime into to lo develop clop this industry and If the new tariff prevents Ne Swiss competition in inthe he thu home market France knows per- per well iveli weI that she sue must look forward to o German manufacturers dumping their heir surplus products at cost ln In Fin Franco r Strengthen To imi Garvin m The he Berliner Ta says s 's that tho time Austrian garrisons on 01 the Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian glan frontier aro aye aro about aboul to bo ho strengthened strength strength- ened as nH events In Russia render rot this enel precaution desirable from rout lie tho mJ- mJ tan amy point of Ir IrI I View w. w Similar measures s Will VIM vi be 10 taken h by th the German Getman autumn autumn- ties tes on the nUo Gennan futol frontier The JIme Journal declares that lint an nut understanding understanding under under- standing on out the tile subject was reached i during durin the time Emperor Williams William's visit to Vienna Vienna |