§ Mr. LONSDALEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he had any official information showing that the four battleships of this year's German programme could, if required, be completed in the course of the year 1912; and if he had 1329 reason for doubting that Germany would have seventeen vessels of the "Dreadnought" type available for war in the year 1912?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; but if the German Government wish to complete these vessels in the course of the year 1910, it is presumed that it would be possible for them to do so.