CANADA'S GIFT SHIPS.
WHERE ARE THEY FOR? SIR WILFRID LAURIER SPEAKS OUT. By Telegraph—Press Association— CopyrisW Ottawa, May 10. In the House of Commons, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Leader of the Opposition, m his final speech on tho Navy Bill (which provides for the gift of throo battleships at a cost of .£7,000,000 to the Navy) said it was a. hollow mockery to say tliat an emergency existed in Great Britain necessitating additional battleships in tho North Sea. Yet, Mr. Winston Churchi 1. First £orcl of tho Admiralty, had deliberately decided to placo tlio proposed Canadian gift ships not in the North Sea, [ but at Gibraltar. to -km The Nationalists, continued Sir Wilfrid Laurier, could now rest in peace because their sons would not be disembowelled while the warships remained under the shelter of tho guns of Gibraltar. This was a great triumph for the Nationalists and tho Borden Government.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 5
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149CANADA'S GIFT SHIPS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 5
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