To Enlarge British Fleet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 28, 1912:
Admiralty Says It Will Increase the Mediterranean Force.
    LONDON, Sept, 27.— In a statement, issued to-night, the Admiralty announces that the British naval force in the Mediterranean will be greatly increased next year.
    Recent reports have said that the British naval force in the Mediterranean was to be decreased, and that French warships were to be massed there to take the place of the vessels which England withdrew. This intimation caused both alarm and anger in Berlin, where it was asserted that this move of the allies was aimed at the Triple Alliance, the design being to have France overpower the Italian and Austrian fleets in case of war, while the huge British Armada would be left free to smash the Kaiser's navy.