Germans Remain Calm.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 23, 1912:
But They Repeat That the Naval Increases Are England's Fault.
    BERLIN; July 23.— German public opinion is neither disturbed nor irritated over yesterday's naval debate in the House of Commons. The press generally seems satisfied with Germany's comparative position under the new order of things and praises the speech of First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill as frank, without the usual provocateveness. It criticises, however, the attempt to throw the responsibility for increased armaments on Germany.
    The Vossische Zeitung points out that the increase in the German fleet was due to the tone of British statesmen during the Morocco crisis, which compelled every German to regard an increase in the fleet as a commandment of self-preservation. The Vossische Zeitung takes up ex-Premier Balfour's phrase about "senseless competition" in shipbuilding, and says. Who is responsible? It was not Germany that invented dreadnoughts, super-dreadnoughts, and submarines."
    A responsible official to-day supported the view of the press and asserted unequivocally that the speech delivered by Mr. Lloyd-George at the Mansion House in London in was the direct and sole cause of the new German Naval bill.