The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-07
BRITISH PROGRAMME
DEMANDS MORE SHIPS
Doubling Germany's Rate of
Armament Means Gigantic
Burdens on People.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT
Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
LONDON, April 6.-While the an
nouucement recently made In pnrhn-
mcnt by Winston Churchill in regard
TO the naval policy of the present gov
ernment has been hailed with cheers by
all the iingoes of the country ana
while many Liberal statesmen reahze
that the policy of Mr.. Churchill may
be the only one possible under present
circumstances, it is no source of JOY 10
the real friends of peace and progress
The British shpbuilding programme
ia arranged with regard TO the com
nleted action OF the German Heet Ia"
rather than to the precise NUMBER ol
ships turned out from year to year
Hitherto the general rule has been 10
construct dreadnoughts on The OASIS oil
about three British ships 10 Two ger
man ships, having regard 10 Iuo nn
balance of power IN tins now noihiua'-
ing category Of war vessels; lhls has'
az course. meant total advantage o.
more than two to one, considering Eng
lands vast superiority In the pre-
drcadnought battleships-
Tho question is now; Has tuls stan
lard been raised by Mr.. Churchill!
The programme means IN Its norma
working that il four dreadnoughts are
constructed this year, three wlil De pe
n,n next wear. and four in 1914. But
what will happen if the proposed Ger
man additions TO the navy law come
| into effectf Apparently England stat y
from that moment on OASIS OF wv
keels to one for each German auui i,lon ,
20 tho present basis Of her heet law
u otber words. instead of buildlnl
tbree dreadnoughts next year, Englanu
v-;li huild five. The reason is tnat IN.
admiralty is making an increasing al
Iowance for the decreasing NUMBER anu
yoIne Of the pre- cdreadnought type.
Rut the fact remains that, II the re
,,;sod German plans go through, Eng
Ia will this year 30 building foui
dreadpouqhts 10 Germany TWO anSS
in 1913 five TO Germany thIee, wiz
the usual vast and costly omPieineIu ~ = !.
in the shape of fleets OF cruisers o. u.
an nt .. ,,,,,ns and a shoal of destroyer'
and submarines. o ,o do,
r, - very difficult TO tell, for no on
Lra,rs vct how great will be the inhu
go III, war-hating Socialists may "a
ort or how much the improved diPio
u,at;c nosition in London Will moall
.ha rather threatening plans or the gov
ernment, :; Erolan,
-and probably no man. man n'tbe tbe, modora
t;nn will prevail in Germany and Una
; ;iUSoes ;;iiu win he silenced. for every s sd
, d;t;on 60 the German fleet weakens To-
! orotsst oI[rD Of British Liberalism. and ADD
Weight Weight to the automatic force In TN TN,
, country, which makes for greater s,an. an,
, nrcater fleets Tho process is enoies'
; t,nIass one is to conceive it ms cut snor
= NV war. Under it each country sense
: io,.,v taxes the other If GERMAN,
. . ssT,' n.n even today. force England TO bull
four four drondnoughts to her two, t?mol
). row she NAV compel Great BRIAN Iiia Rne
i construct eight 70 her four; while Eht IN!
, !, 1on5 IU an her side. laws correspondin
4 hurdcns ,S on her people. The p,oposi'io ,
: Germany has now set is hardly .on an e.
~ eess;ve one; but no one VIII pretoh
that it assists the cause OF peace