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Thii; Rfa'iiiw ou RnviRws. 



all appeals will be made to rtnuthcr and juster trilninal 

 than that of torce." 



" W'k Cannot Kkki' It I'l'."' 



Dr. Dillon in the Coii/cni/nnciiy llius sounds the 

 alarm. He says : — 



Germany can build warships and even cumpele successfully 

 witli Great Britain for foreign orders. But what is of much 

 greater consequence, slie can man without an eff.jrt all the vessels 

 she cares to build. That is the crucial point on which the out- 

 come of the race will ultimately depend. 0.ir rival is gaining 

 ground on us rapidly in spile of our efforts to lieep well ahead 

 of her. And the longer the competition lasts the more formid- 

 able the difticullies with which we h.ave to contend. 



Another eipially disadvantageous to us is the necessity we are 

 in of constructing two ships ("or every one built by our rival. 

 And the manning of each of these vessels costs us twice as much 

 as it costs the Germans, so that for every million sterling laid 

 out by C}erniany on her navy we are obliged to spend four 

 millions. That is why we cannot lieep it up. 



Dr. Dillon quotes M. Menshikoff in the Novoye 

 Vrcinya, who says, " 1 personally believe that what 

 really conquers is not so much the means of fighting 

 as the desire to fight." England has lost the desire 

 to fight. She has lost the warlike instinct. 



The Triumph of Germ.'^ny's Policy. 



Under this provocative heading Mr. Archibald Hurd. 



The Question of the Dardanelles, 



Russia, Tt;RKEV, Gki;man-v, and AcsruiA (to Italy) 

 " Shut up ! You disturb us." 



in the J'orlniglilly, shows how German policy li;- 

 resulted in liritish triumph. He says : — 



The last thing that Admiral von Tirpitz desired to achieve 

 when he initiated, umler the inspiration of the German Emperor, 

 the movement fin' the cieation of a great German Fleet, was the 

 strengthening of British sea-power and the lightening of the 

 bonds which unite the Mother Country to the Dominions. He 

 certainly had no thought that he woulil thereby assist in weaving 

 strands which in years to come would bind Fiussia to France in a 

 firm alliance, France to England in the closest friendship, and 

 Kngland to the United States in cordial amity; nor did he 

 realise that the policy of «*•// politik, supported by increasing 

 naval power, would throw Japan into the arms of England in 

 defence of equality of commercial opportunity and "the open 

 door." 



AH these wonders — any one of which would have confirmed 

 the title of any statesman, not of German birth, to a high place 

 — Admiral von Tirpitz, with the assistance of the other Ministers 

 of the German Empire, has worked not as the main end of his 

 policy, but merely as incidental trifles. What a triumph of 

 blind zeal ! 



Mr. Hurd goes on to insist that two keels to one in 

 armoured ships a«re essential to British adtnirals fighting 

 with the certainty of victory, but nothing less than 

 three keels to one in cruisers against Germtmy will be 

 adequate to our future needs. This standard corre- 

 sponds closely to the actual output of ships during the 

 last five years. The two-to-one standard_ in men is, Mr. 

 Hurd opines, not needed in the British Fleet, for our 

 system obttiins far more efficient crews than the 

 German navy. British naval officers hold that it takes 

 from five to six years to train an expert naval rating. 

 'J'he German fleet is manned by men who serve at sea 

 for only three years, without preliminary training 

 ashore. 



NEED OF A FI'VE YF-ARS' N.WAL LAW. 



Mr. Hurd remarks upon the unfortunate effect Ci 

 annual- discussions of naval policy and recommends a 

 quinquennial Act as in Germany. He says : — 



By means of a British law the nation through its representa- 

 tives could make an effective demonstration of its resolve to 

 maintain its supremacy on the seas at all costs, and then for 

 five peaceful years qu.-'Stions of relative n.aval strength and the 

 motives and actions of rival Powers might be completely buried 

 .as far as Parliament is concerned. F^ach spring the Admiralty 

 would bring forward its Estimates based upon the provisions of 

 the jN'avv Law ; the speeches of Ministers and private members 

 would be confined entirely to administrative details, and there 

 would he no occasion to brandish in the face of the world a 

 British trident or to give expression to suspicions as to the 

 actions of other countries which now periodically serve to excite 

 inevitable and very natural irritation in all the Chancelleries of 

 iuirope. 



A German on Gi:rman Policy. 



l)r. Dillon, in \.\\c Contemporary , shows ho_w even 

 moderale German newspapers represent Kngland as 

 the marplot of the world. As an offset to this he quotes 

 from Maximilian Harden a severe censure on the 

 German policy : — 



This howling over the mote in our neighbour's eye does not 

 free ours from the beam which is bigger. Not a day passes 

 without coarse, w.anton insults being offered to the foreigner. 

 Our behaviour is base, even when it appears to be determined 

 by the authority of office. To strive to thwart a transaction 

 where you are foredoiimed to fail, to sow mistrust where the 

 seed must remain fruitless, is insensate and despicable. 



