No official statement bas as yet been made with regard
to the proposed increases in the German Navy. But the German Press has been full of articles and paragraphs forecasting the Government proposals. Some of these are attributed to the Admiralty and Foreign Office Press bureaux, while others are probably due to intelligent, if irresponsible, anticipation on tho part of journalists. The Cologne Gazette denies that any definite arrangements have been concluded, but declares that the wishes of the Navy run in the direction of a third active squadron of the High Sea Fleet, and the Tagliche Runclachau publishes details of the new Budget, according to which the Army expenditure is to be increased by £2,250,000
• and the Navy expenditure by £1,250,000. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Times, "the official and non-official agitators for an increase of the German Navy are succeeding in getting the increases fixed in the public mind as something natural, inevitable, and irrevocable."
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