Review of reviews and world's work . be noth-ing less than national bankruptcy, if notcomplete national economic prostration. Thenaval program approved by the FrenchCabinet early last month involves an ex-penditure of $600,000,000, covering a periodof ten years. This provides for the con-struction of six Dreadnoughts, six other bat-tleships, and four armored cruisers. OnJune 16 the keels of four Russian battle-ships of the greater Dreadnought type werelaid in St. Petersburg by the Minister ofMarine. These, it is expected, will be theequal in armanent and gun efficiency of anybattleships afloat
Review of reviews and world's work . be noth-ing less than national bankruptcy, if notcomplete national economic prostration. Thenaval program approved by the FrenchCabinet early last month involves an ex-penditure of $600,000,000, covering a periodof ten years. This provides for the con-struction of six Dreadnoughts, six other bat-tleships, and four armored cruisers. OnJune 16 the keels of four Russian battle-ships of the greater Dreadnought type werelaid in St. Petersburg by the Minister ofMarine. These, it is expected, will be theequal in armanent and gun efficiency of anybattleships afloat at the time of their com-pletion. Austria has already determinedupon the building of four Dreadnoughts,and the Italian naval program includesthree vessels of this type. The ambitiousnew regime at Constantinople is aiming alsoat attaining power on the sea, and it is re-ported that the threatened tension betweenTurkey and Greece over the Cretan questionhas set the government at Athens to workupon a naval scheme astonishingly dispro-. portionate to the territorial extent and finan-cial position of Greece. The entire conti-nent has apparently entered upon a mad racefor naval power. j^^ Although the plans of the BritishApprehension naval maneuvers of early June ng an . ^^^ ^^^ actual results accom-plished are still a secret, it is known thatduring the three days annual maneuversmore than 350 warships were mobilized uponthe east coast of Scotland. One of the threefleets into which this great force was divided,we are told, was designated to represent aGerman invading force, and in the hypothet-ical battle that was fought every possiblemove in an actual hostile invasion was con-sidered and its check worked out. WhileJohn Bull has, of course, derived a modicumof satisfaction and comfort from the offersof Canada, Australia, and New Zealand tobuild battleships for the British Navy, it isevident that the British mind is still muchdisturbed over the question of the possible(Englishmen are
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