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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 3

, "Charges of scandalous wa3to in the French naval administration aro contained in a report on: tho naval accounts made by M. Emmanuel Brousse, deputy, on bohalf of • the Accounts Commission of the Chamber," says the Paris "Mail." "Battleships of 18,000 tons, which cost England about £1,520,009, 'and Germany ' £1,820,000, cost Franco £2,080,000. ; In addition, .the estimated cost is always .exceeded .by.--from £80,000 to £320,000. ■ .The report says, further, that millions aro swallowed by the Navy without the fleet benefiting in any way. Costly repairs are made to vessels which "are valueless even when repaired. Boilers costing about £30,000 were .ordered for jivo vessels which were put on ono side as useless beforo the boilers were supplied.' " Preaching at Jesuit Church, Farm Street, Fathor Bernard Vaughan said during tho last half-century class barriers had been swept away by tho incoming tide of 'democracy, and overy ono was fighting for his individual or class ends, though ho might deceive himself' and others by calling it So-, cialismv • As. tho result the ~ relations be-tween-different sections of tho community were growing more .impersonal, and there was a danger of estrangement springing up in our midst' unloaa wo liecamo infuaed with tho aijirit of Christ.