Review of Reviews, 1/3/13. PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 



LORD OP ALL HE SURVEYS. 



ITopical. 



Ts:\v Ferdinand of Bulg-aria surveying the City of Kavalla from tlie Ruins of Alexander 



the Great. 



A difficult problem will be that of the 

 three Canadian Dreadnoughts, the vote 

 for which was agreed to in the Parlia- 

 ment at Ottawa on February 28, al- 

 though whether they are to be added 

 to the Imperial Na\\' or are to form 

 part of a Canadian fleet, is still 

 being rather at-rimoniously discussed 

 throughout the whole of Canada. If 



tion of his countrx', but his ver}^ efforts 

 have left it in a more distracted sta' i 

 than ever before. 



A Halt in Naval Armaments. 



Mr. Winston Churchill's offer witli re- 

 gard to the proportion of battlesliips 

 has now been accepted by Admiral von 

 Tirpitz. That is to sa}', Germany is 



prepared to adopt a naval standard of given, are these or are these not to be 



ten German to sixteen British capital included in the English ships? From the 



ships for the next few years. It is a German point of view the>' will be. 



great thing to have armed at such an The}' become part of the British Fleet, 



understanding. Attempts have been We, for instance, would insist upon 



made by British statesmen to reach reckoning in any capital ship given by 



agreement with Germany on the matter a German colony, supposing any of 



since Campbell Bannerman's time, es- these " places in the sun " ever became 



pecially during the Hague Conference wealth}- enough to make the present, 



m 1907, but without success. This Germany certainly wall consider herself 



does not keep to- the policy of laying justified in counting these gift ships, 



down two keels to one, but it does The New France. 



give us a substantial balance, 35 to The wonderful re\i\al of France dur- 



23, in 1915. ' ' ■ ing the last few years is no doubt 



