THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1918 ee The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HaZeELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA DisTRIcT oF British COLUMBIA, Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year, ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for first insertion, 10 centa per line for each subsequent ingertion. Legal notices inserted at B. C. Gazette rates. Vou, IIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1913, No. 12. The Omineca Miner has the largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Lord Charles Beresford called attention the other day to a novel feature of the new naval situation which is very often lost sight. of by even sincere students of international affairs. By way of proof of his statement that, while ‘the British fleetis stronger than it ever was, it was never weaker as compared with other nations,’’ he pointed out that “there are 150 Dreadnoughts built, building, or projected in the world, of which Britain owns thirty-nine’? That is, there are a lot more nations seriously entered in the naval race now than there used to be. It is not so very long, says the Star, since it was Britain first and France second, and all the o'herg nowhere. . There was not a single other Navy of importance in existence, Great Britain maintained a two-power standard against france and Russia: and this made her secure from any possible combination. But now a complete change has come. Wecontrast the British Navy with the German as the next strongest; but we are constantly consciousof at least four other first-class navies in the background. These are the Navies of the United States, France, Japan and Italy. Then behind these, again, ave the Navies of Austria, Rus- sia, South America, and even some of the lesser nations, It is no longer ‘‘Eclipse’’ first, its rival next, and everybody else nowhere. Britain can no longer be indifferent to the naval combinations of the world. She can no longer issue the challenge in the naval arcna-— “Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them!’ Add the Japanese fleet or the American fleet or the French fleet to the navies of the Triple Alliance, and the odds against her . would be appalling. So itisno wonder that Lord Charles Beresford declared that ‘‘the co-operation of the Dominions is more impera- tive than ever,” And he very significantly. remarked—'‘‘Policy and sentiment may alter in an afternoon, bit it takes two years to build a battleship.” | REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J.P. 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