SEVEN DREADNOUGHTS WANTED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 5

SEVEN DREADNOUGHTS WANTED.

MR. CiiIiRCHIII AND THE LITTLE - NAVY MEN, ESTIMATES WILL BE ADOPTED. By Telegraph—l'r-cw AtFociaUen-Comigbt • Uondon, January 21'. The ""Times" (Unionist), in a "leader, says: "if the Government- found .it necessary in- this circumstances at last year to forecast a programme of fsur capital ships, there is assuredly nothing in tho .progress of European to suggest the pruriency of revising that forecast in the seiiso.rfesired by pacificists. If a revision is necessary—and «'o believo it it should ho in its other sense." The "Daily Mail" says that it is practically certain that Mr. Chnrchiil's Estimates will Ire eitrricd by the Cabinet Council, as Sir Edward Grey, Coloiw?! Scely, Lord HaldnJio, and Mr. /Reginald M'Keima are supporliii" them. It is understood iliat Mr. Churchill desires seven Dreadnoughts,' tho throa extra being to replace those forthcoming from Canada. CANADA'S NAVAL, POLICY. DEBATE IN THE SENATE. Ottawa, January 22. In the Dominion Senate, during ilii uehatc on the Address to .the Throne, Senator Ross twitted the Conservatives with being afraid to submit a naval policv to. the people, as Jlr. Borden had' pro. raised to do before the Senate.decided to throw out the Mill. Senator Ross pointed wit that- tlie Government was able, under tho Lnuriw Naval Act, to proceed to the construe-tio-n of a nucleus navy, but had pro ieri'od to do nothing. ESTIMATES NEXT WEEK. (Roc. January 23, 10.33 p.m.) London, January i' 2 Many conflicting reports are ivi circulation concerning the p-tsition in QlO Cabinet. It is understood that tins Naval JCslinn-.es will be disev-ssed next week. An infliicntul petition fivriH the city, containing 1003 signatures, including thos'o of Lord South',vark, Lord Rothschild, Baron Aklouluu-n, and many 'Unionists and Liberals -has' bi-ei'i presented, requesting that tlw Lord Mayor should convene a, meeting at .the Guildhall for, the purpose of strengthening tho {Unernmcitl's hands to oiisnre the maintenance of British naval supremacy. LABOUR ATTACK ON Ml?/ CHURCHILL. (Ree. January 23, 11.50 p.m.> Lonrfor), January '2ft. Sir. J. Ramsay MneDomild, M-P., speaking at Dundee, attacked' Mr. Churchill's navy administration, and de. dared that tho" whole agitation- for this increase in armaments was the work -of an armour-plate ring. The Labour party would see that all the cost should be borne by those clamouring for e:; pemdiiure. JOURNALISTIC TRANSPORTS. OX AX ECSTATIC OCCASION. Could even. George Augustus S-iln. (asks a writer in the "Manchester Guardian") lwc beaten this!' It is from tho "Washington Post's" account of tho weddiujj of President. Wilson's daughter; "The chief executive of the nation for the moment was sabniri-gf'd in the oitiiscii and the father, and his identity became secondary to the daughter -of the household, with -the natural right of bridal precedence.' And thus again did the nimble-fingered fates weave their lineaments into the tapestry of White House history with its cvermeliowing perspectives. . . Fair as tho lilies in tho Sevres vases beside the east window, in i'lev soft, trailing ivorytoned gown, the nation's daughter-bridei made her way with her illustrious father down the corridor, passing ;he Re.- 1 ' Room with its harmonies in colo-w aji-i! ' historv. tho Blue Room, where Marin Monroe, the first. White House _brid.9 who was tlio dat'.gh+er of n President, promised to love, honour, and obey Laureueo GoTO'eriiciriv.hor young kinsman. . . . Site entered the East Roam, where, oil. a January iiight nearly 70 vears ago, sweot Lizzie Tyler, curls and wlio-se blushes had ensnared the i'ancv of manv a bean in the -polito world of lier day, trayft her hand to a. young William \Valloi% of \Vnii&ins^urg. :n Wo all of I.ls wish tno best of luck to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre. 'Fire lady was not super-, s-titioivs. for si-re is the thirteenth _ \\ hrtoHause bride, married, toe, in 191-3.