NAVAL POLICY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17116, 11 April 1921, Page 8

NAVAL POLICY.

——-♦ ■ AN IMPERIAL PROBLEM. SIB CYPRIAN BEEDGE'a VIEW, j ■' m T -CM—-Vnm iMooiation—CopTright.) (Australian *nd NZ. Cable Association.) | •'•'''■' LONDON, April 7. j Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, Com-mander-in-Ohief of the Australian Sta- j tion 1895-98, writing to the Australian Press Association, says that the naval, policy calls for the careful consideration of every part of the Empire. The Navy is no longer. Britain's, bulb the j Empire's. "It is properly the defender of the Enrpire'a lines of communication, and is indispensable to its prosperity, independence, and existence. The work of British people overseas had conferred enormous benefits by bringing vast unproductive areas into productivity, and the products of these areas could only reach those needing them if the maritime routes were kept.Becure. British naval was a, necessary element in the peculiar structure of the. Empire. ■' ■' : " '■' ."In"view of the naval policy of the IJiiited States arid, perhaps, also of Japan,", he added, ' 7 our primacy will depart.- ,It is already authoritatively announced that we will be content with equality, instead of j>rimacy. To maintain the latter would, involve huge expenditure. \ The experience. of huge, coßtly ships'at Jutland has given universal dissatisfaction, 'and the time has come to revwe our standard of naval force. It is a J?oint: that will make ihe task of providing proper naval defence supremely arduous." THE SINGAPORE OONPEEENOE. TReceived April 10tt, 11.80 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 10. ' Rear-Admiral E. P. P. Grant, First Naval Member of the Board of Naval Administration, has returned from the Singapore Naval Conference. He will, furnish a report to the Government next weei-- .