, 1909-03-24

to the Budget Committees invitation to
explain the discrepancy between the British
and German naval statements regarding
construction and limitation. 1t will appear
after reading the complete German transla-
tons OF verbatim reports of the debates in
the House Of Commons.
Ex-President Castro says he win not dis
embark at Port Of Spain. If not allowed to
disembark at Laguayra, he will proceed to
Colon, and the French flag will protect him
against arrest on board the Guadeloupe at
Laguayra.
Washington March 2Oth-The state de-
p|artmeut has communicated to the
NicaraguQn Minister an ultmatum for arbi-
tration Of the emery claim or tie severance
of diplomatic relations.
Mr.. Roosevelt has declined the Duke of
Abercorn's invitation on behalf Of the CHART
cred South Africa Company to visit Rhode
STA as he is unable to spare the time, bat re
grets it was not received when he was able
to make arrangements
st. Thomas, goth March-U. S. Scholarship
Adams arrived yesterday afternoon.
London, March 22nd-A gangway con
Meeting the recently launched battleship
Vanguard with the wharf in Messrs Yickers
Sons and Maxims' shipyards at Barrow in
Furness collapsed, throwing fifty workmen to
the pier, three being killed and forty injured.
The extent Of the naval panic is indicated
by the Times publishing a letter from Mr..
Frederic Harrison predicting a disaster such
as modern history has no parallel if the
Naval defenses fail, an incident like the
Dreadnought bursting a boiler, would, he
says, involve incaIculable industrial and
financial changes throughout the world.
Great Britain might survive ii, bnt only to
be q small power like Holland, hence he now
iaOontg bis f,Vr,ar. o1ti mills nri,r, an
emergency meeting of the Navy League,
Lord Echo presiding,a resolution was adopt
ed to Immediately initiate a great campaign to
arouse the people to the urgency and seri-
BUSINESS of the problem confronting the
nation, that is eight new Dreadnoughts IS to
be the minimum acceptable. The Lord
Mayor is arran ging q meeting at the Man
sion House, and the Chambers of Com
meroe are adopting q similar action in the
Provinces. No such depth of feeling
has been manifested since the black
week of the Boer war, aud the Beresfordites
are being overwhelmingly reinforced against
the Fisheries. Mr.. Asquith has succeeded
IN silencing his Radical opponents, but has
damaged the prestige Of the Admiralty and
the Government. The panic monger8 are
however unjust in making comparisons by
the Drgadnoughts alone, ignoring England's
vast superiority in other classes, and they
discredit the navy in their fierce PARTISAN
attack and rehabilitato the Kaiser in German
esteem.
Berlin dispatches say the German naval
eXpansionists regret they cannot share En-
glands useful scare. They regard the al
legged panic as Il magnifcently staged pro
duction produced opportunoly to Influence
q bumper naval credit, otherwise an increase
OF the income tax and other sundry budget
airy items would be unpalatable. Germans
feel immensely fat'ored at this invaluable
advertisement Of their fleet, giving it without
the loss of q single rudder what the army
got by bloody campaigns. Nothing can now
reduce Germany's naval programme nor en-
large it after completion. An authorized
statement catalogues thirteen Dreaduoughts
to be available in 1912 and declares there
will be no others.
A despatch from Wellington says New
Zealand has offered to defray the cost of a
battleship Immediately and collect funds for
q second.
Advices from Belgrade state peace is as
sured. Austria will postpone her reply to
Servia, enabling the powers to intervene by