An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau dated 12 February which reported that the Greek cabinet recently bought several ships or ordered the building. In November received the German shipyard Vulkan at Stettin the order to built a 19.500 ton battleship instead of a 12.500 ton armoured cruiser. The German shipyards Vulcan and Germania were to built totally 6-125 torpedo boats with a speed of 25 miles . According to rumours was the 2.600 ton cruiser Tschao-Ho with a speed of 25 miles and built by the British shipyard Yarrow for Chinese government account bought. The success with the submarine Delphin resulted in ordering the building of the 460 ton Xiphias at the shipyard of Schneider and Creuzot.
