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Excerpt from The European War: August to March During the ten years from 1890 to 1900, this com mercial and industrial expansion went on with ever increasing rapidity, while during this time several causes for friction arose between Germany and Great Britain and Germany embarked on the crowning sin of her career, to British eyes, the creation of a great navy. Up to the launching of the Dreadnought by Great Britain, Germany's efforts at creating a navy able to cope with hers were not remarkably successful, owing to the great advance in constructed ships Great Britain possessed. But the success of this dreadnought type of battle ship, which practically sent all ships constructed be fore it to the junk heap, was Germany's opportunity which she improved, starting in on a well reasoned plan of construction that in a very few years raised her navy to the second strongest in the world, and bade fair in a few years-more to create a fleet fully as strong as that of Great Britain. This latter power did not view this proceeding on Germany's part with equanimity. She has herself for many years added to her fleet on the principle of keeping always equal in strength to the two strongest fleets which could be opposed to it. Germany's program of construction obliged Great Britain to strain every financial nerve to maintain the established proportion; So great was this strain that on one occasion she proposed to Germany that the construction of warships in the future be limited. She was Willing to pledge herself to only build five ships to each three built by Germany. Somehow or other the merits of this proposition did not appear clear to Germany, so the race in construction continued and the British middle classes, who largely had to pay the cost of the British construction, and whom Germany was also injuring by taking their customers from them in the world's markets in fair and open competition, did not have their love for Germany increased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.