The age-herald., 1901-07-06
BRITISH NAVY
 NOT ADEQUATE
This is Substance of Speeches in ParIiament-Three Cruis-
 CTS Completed This Year

London July 5.-In the House of Lords today the Earl of Selbore. First Lord of the Admiralty, in a statement on the present naval position of Great Britain said that the remainder of the year 1901 would witness the completion of three armored cruisers of the Greasy class, four first-class barbette ships of the class of the Formidable, and two first class barbette ships of the class of the Canopus.
 Lord Selborne said the first half of 1902 would see the completion of two more vessels of the Greasy class two of the Formidable class, two of the Monmouth class and three armored cruisers of the Drake class.
 The First Lord of the Admiralty added that the total number of destroyers built or building was 113 and of the five sub marine vessels already ordered, the first would be rsNdy for trial next Septem- Der.
 The cruis will be of $500 tons and will have >eed of B knots. Their arm ament will be heavier than the Mon mouths. It is believed that the cruisers which are about to be laid down will be equal to anything likely to be brought against them.
 The new torpedo boat destroyers will be of stronger construction. In regard to hospital ships, the treasurer of the ad- miralty said Great Britain had now in the Mediterranean, through the generosi- ty of an American citizen-Generu Ba- ker, president of the Atlantic Transport ba well-puuiDDed Maine,
 All the new ships will be fitted with wireless telegraphy, as will all other British ships as they come in for repairs.
 Efforts are being made to overcome the arrears in ship building, and the secre- tary adds that the government Is now able to supply guns as they are needed.
 The secretary of the admiralty said also that there was an absolute determination on the part of the admiralty to find the hest type of boiler, and the government was watching with interest a German ex- neriment of combining cylindrical and water tube boiler tube in the same ship.
 London. July 5-The governments ex- plantations of the naval programme nave failed to awaken great enthusiasm, put they are regarded as showing that the ,,overnment is alive to the necessities of inc case The Daily Chronicle, which noints out that although Lord Selborne  dwelt upon the difficulty of getting ves- ting vessels finished to time, foreign pow CTS like Japan have no difhculty Tn get tine enormous battleships built to time in British yards. publishes the contents of confidential reports on the last ma neuvers of the Mediterranean fleet, the substance of which 1t declares, is well known to both France and Russia, al- though it has been concealed from the British public.
 The gist of the reports was that in sea like the Mediterranean lbattleships have little chance and that British power can only be held by destroyers, such as in the maneuvers found the fleet at sea and sank every ship. It declares that both Admiral Fisher and Lord Charles Beresford of the Mediterranean fleet have demanded destroyers, but that none has as yet been sent, and that 1t was these maneuvers which led Lord Charles Beresford to take his recent action in criticising the naval policy of the govern ment.