A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict by Logan Marshall
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so many confessions of national weakness. Between 1904 and 1908
Grear Britain actually reduced her naval expenditures and limited her construction of battleships in the hope that Germany would follow the lead, pleaded at two Hague Conferences for international reduction of armaments, kept away from all increase in her own almost ridiculous military establishment, urged upon two occasions (in 1912-1913) a naval holiday in construction. The following figures from Brassey's authoritative NAVAL ANNUAL shows that her naval expenditure upon new ships in 1913 was actually less than in 1904, that Germany's was nearly three times greater, that France and Russia and Italy had doubled theirs: --------------------------------------------------------- Great Britain/Germany/France/Russia/Italy/Austro-Hungary ---------------------------------------------------------- 1904 (in British pounds) ---------------------------------------------------------- 13,508,176/4,275,489/4,370,102/4,480,188/1,121,753/1,329,590 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1908 ---------------------------------------------------------- 8,660,202/7,795,499/4,193,544/2,703,721/1,866,158/716,662 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1911 ---------------------------------------------------------- 17,566,877/11,710,859/5,876,659/3,240,394/2,677,302/3,125,000 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1912 ---------------------------------------------------------- 17,271,527/11,491,157/6,997,552/7,904,094/2,500,000/3,620,881 ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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