The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-18
SP|THEAD NAVAL REVIEW SATURDAY Most Interesting Event of
 Coronation KING HAS BEEN BUSY Preparations For the Big Show Have Kept Him on the Run.
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 London
KING HAS BEEN BUSY
Rv PHILIP EVERETT

London, June 17.-(Special. )-Everythin
 IS now ready for the great inter
 national naval review at Spithead on
 Saturday next, which is really the only 1 interesting feature of the coronation.
 The large British warships are all an- chored in their final positions since yes
 terday afternoon and tomorrow and Tuesday the vessels representing nearly
 all the navies of the world will arrive, each vessel being met by an English navigation officer who will conduct 1t to it's anchorage. The arrival of the Amer ican squadron is viewed with rather mixed feelings, for, though the Ameri- can visitors are undoubtedly more well come than those of any other nation. 1t hurts British pride to see for the first time in the history of international naval reviews, a foreign battleship, the Ameri- can Delaware, that is superior in fighting power to anything England is able to show. Even the German Dreadnaught, ''Van der Tann," is the equal of any of the British vessels, while the French battleship, "Danton," Is faster than any of the British. battleships.
 The Austrian battleshp, Madetsky, is
 of the same type as the Danton, but
 carries four 9-4 guns less. She is of 14,5oo tons displacement, and appears to be programmed for her size. Italy is repre- sented by an armoured cruiser of $500 tons displacement and carrying four 1O-inch and eight 7-5-inch. She is 2s-knoter, and the first turbine ship Tr nf cases the ship to be sent is the very latest ship completed.
 Beside the European powers the re- maining foreign visitors, none of which is of any particular fighting value are: Argentina, Buenos Ayres; Chile, Chaca- buco; China, Hai-chi; Russia, Rossiya; Spain, Reina Regente; Sweden, Fylgia; Turkey, Hamidieh.
 All of these are protected or belted cruisers Denmark, Holland and Norway are respectively represented by the small coast defence battleships, Olfert Fischer, Jacob van Heemskerck and Eidsyold. It is possible that foreign visitors other than those officially sent may arrive. For instance, Japan will have the Tone, and there are rumors of Itlaly sending the Vittoro Emanuele and the Reina Elena, and that Chile may also send the Esmeralda.
 The British fleet will be remarkable for the number of Dreadnaught battleships. There will be the Colossus, Hercules, 1 Neptune, St. Vincent, Collingwood, Van guard, Bellercphon, Temeraire, Superb and Dreadnaught, making 10 Dreadnaught battleships in all. In addition there will
 be the four "Dreadnaught cruisers" In
 defatigable. Invincible, Infexible and h. l domitabe. This last indicates the enor-
 nous lead that England once had in 1 Dreadnaughts, but it is not to be for 1 gotten that in a very short while the number of English Dreadnaughts will be inferior to the number owned by the two next strongest powers. To describe the Review as the swan-song of the British naval supremacy would be unduly pessimistic, especially in the present cir cumstances; yet at the same time it is impossible to avoid the reflection that for the first time in history, England is holding a Review, at which she Is un- able to say that the British fleet is equal or superior to the next strongest powers combined