Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Must Soon Stop. [ARTICLE]

Must Soon Stop.

Vice Admiral Lefevre, French Minister of Marine, estimates that by about 1905 the type of ironclad now being constructed by the nations of the world will have reached Its apogee, naval armaments along pressent lines will be completed, and the nations will have armed, for the sea, up to the limit. The naval budgets will, he thinks, attain their maximum by that time and will then diminish for some time. This is figuring along present lines. A complete revolution, like that of t{ie introduction of steam, would be needed to upset the calculation.