NAVY LEAGUE NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1512, 7 August 1912, Page 10

NAVY LEAGUE NOTES.

The follev.Mng are extract? from the [uartcrly letter from the Headquarters if the Navy League to the local hou. secetnry of the league,(Mr. Cecil Palmer):— "Tho influence of the Navy League ill he United Kingdom is doily becoming nore and more powerful.' The recent de■elopment of naval policy, more especially ho definite adoption by the Government if the standard of power originally ad■ocated by the league, namely, two keels o one in completed capital ship? against lie next strongest European Power, i. ; 'loqiient testimony to the activities oi he Navy League. At the Empire Day •cview over 1000 Navy League boys march' !d past, and|wero a striking example oi rlint methods of training and discipline an accomplish for tho poorest class of ioy in our congested cities. You will ;e" glad to hear that the Hertfordshire <avy League, numbering over 8000 meni>ers', which for many years has stood part from the general organisation, has low been embodied in the {movement, and vill in future bo part and parcel of the N T avy League as a whole. A large in :rease in membership of the league iitu akeu place, chiefly among tho working •lasses, and the policy of 'the command f Hie sea' is becoming everywhere more ridcly understood. In order to counterct. the operations of Socialism, as aflcctng defence policy, tho Navy League s employing ex-chief petty officers as pen-air .'speakers; aiid headmasters of irimary schools are being employed to octurc to children on the duties ot citi■.enship and the meaning of nationality uul Empire The Higher Education 'ommittee of the city of Birmingham mve approved of the fonnation of _c jianch of tlie league in everyone of then ecoiulary schools. A mission is being or' anised to visit Canada to place before he citizens of Hint great country the ueslion of Imperial naval defence as mderstood by the Navy League. Ihe t-agiie is nt the momtnt strenuously iringiiv,' pressure to bear upon the Gov•rnnieul to prevent (.ho withdra«-al ol mi- battle fleet from the Mediterranean.'