The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-06
S7OO,000,0O0 FOR WARSH|PS
ENORMOUS COST OF THE NAVAL VESSELS NOW UNDER
 CONSTRUCTION

LONDON. JJan. 21. According to the returns compiled by "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" the total mum Der Of war vessels now being built in the United Kingdom for the Brit ish government is @. the aggregate displacement being 2SO. .66J tons. At the government dockyards six war ships are under construction for the government tone battleship. one armored cruiser, two third class cruisers and two sTDmarincSI, with a total displacement of 56, SSO tons At private yards there are five battleshipe, three armoref cruisers, four protected cruisers. B torpedo boat destroyers and five submarines under construction, with 223.7S5 tons total displacement.
 Statistics from another source show that the total number of baltleships and armOred cruisers noT being built by the nations of the world Is 70, with a tonnage of about 1.5or- 900, representing S700000.OO0. This is exclusive of small craft.
 Germany is building 153.O0O tons and fitting out 125.000 tons; the United States is building S00OO tons and fitting out 10000 tons, and France is building i6,000 tons and fitting ont 110.000 tons
 The naval correspondent of the London Daily News has compiled a comparative table of battleships launched and completed by the pow CTS in 1910. Armored ships con- pleted for service are taken first Great Britain during the year got ready five armored ships. These were the three battleships provided for in the 1907-0S estimates (St Vincent. Collingwood and Vanguard). which have been passed into commission; the Neptune, which was commission ed for service today, and the arm ored cruiser lndefatigable. which has passed her trials but which will not be commissioned for a few weeks yet.
 Against this total of five ships Germany can show three Rhineland and Posen, battleships. and Von der Tam. armOred cruiser): France. none; United States. none; Japan. one (Satsuma, battleship) Italy, one tSan Marco. armOred cruiscr); Bra gil, two (Minas Geraes and Sac Paulo. battleships), and Austria, one (Erzherzog Franz Ferinand. battle ship
 Great Britain also took first place as regards the launching of ships ill the spring there were launched the Hercules and Colossus. battle ships of 22,250 tons. cached armed with ten l2-inch guns; August saw the launch of the record breaking Orion, displacing 22.6S0 tons and armed with ten of the new 13.5 guns: and also Cf the battle cruiser Lion which is to displace 26.360 tons. to steam 2S knots and to carry eight of these same powerful weapons
 Germany launched two ships (Old- enburg, battleship, and Moltke, arm ored cruiser); France the battleship NerGniaud and the United States the battleship Florida. Japan, Ans, tria and Greece also launched ora armcred ship Kawachi, Zrinyi and Giorgio Averoff respectively; no others were launched during the veal.
 Lastly, as to the ships laiG down Great Britain claims six - the bat tleships Thunderer, Conqueror and Monarch and the armored cruisers Princess Royal. Australia and New Zealand. Germany has laid down four OErsatz Aegir Ersatz Hagen and Ersatz Odin, battleships, an the armored cruiser D. Two ships have been commenced for the United States Wyoming and Arkansas. bat tleships), and two for France Clean Bart and Courbet, battleships).
 The following is a briet statement of the DreadnOughts now actually under construction or ordered for the leading powers:
 Ordered or