AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.
JGXTENSIVE PROGRAMME,
, ANOTHER DREADNOUGHT TO BE BUILT. WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE. By Telflgraph—Press Association—Copyright (Itcc. April 1, 0.55 a.m.) ; Melbourne, March 31. The Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, in a policy, speech --this evening, sprang'a great surprise by announcing that the Government, having carefully considered the .relative naval strengths.. in the -Pacific,had decided to lay down immediately another Dreadnought, three destroyers, and three or, *jur submarines. ' All the vessels yibol.Je of greatly-improved types, and had .already . been, prepared in O Navy Office.. . • Mr. Fisher Strongly defehded i Australia's, nttyai policy, and quoted figures as ito the annual expenditure per lieitd ,on' dofcnco to prove that Australia . alone among the Dominions is-taking.-.defence seriously:— ■ . ' . ■■ Per head. - ■ ! I iC s. d. • 'Great Britain. 1 11 .7. • ' " Australia - 1 12' ; Now Zealand 0 11 2 : South Africa 0 ,6 2 0 -6 .2 • * \ Newfoundland 0 0 3 : The new programme- would , bo spread over- threo years. The vessels, Mr. Tisher pointed- out,, were altogether' dis-tinct-from those now under construction. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 5
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167AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 5
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