HUGE SUM FOR THE NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 5

HUGE SUM FOR THE NAVY.

oviß Eftum mum. BRITAIN'S NEW FIGHHNCx SHIPS. By "Mcgrit-ph— Press AS-sceiaiie-n—CSipyritrht ■ UfliidOfi,'March 12. The Navy Estimates total £5j.,.550,1)00. In the new programme £14,fit;7,QOQ is provided fp-rJ-Jio construction of; JfVnir battleships ; Four light- cruisers; Twelve destroyers; and A number of submarines. FURTHER DETAILS. (Ret?. March 13j 10.45 p,m.) London, March 13.. The vote in Ibo Estimates {ot the personnel «f the Navy totals £151,500. a.n increase of £5000.. Now construction, cxcliidiag the air services, £18.,3?3,O0O, of which" the new programme afes*ks £14,817,060, a c}ecrease of £4,007,700. TlitrtcßU battleships, oho battlq-crltiser, sixteen la'glkt eruiserSi thirty torpedom, and twenty-, four subiiitiriiips are being built. ' The gum of £875,000 is devoted to the eeustriictioil of aircraft; five basas will bo completed, n-Jid giuvs cap. ?.We -of fire agiijnst aircraft h.ivD now been mounted o.u battlesh.ips : Experiments in bonib-throu'iug and ia : wireless telegraphy arc beiftg continued. Tile stateiiient mentions tiiat the, -Canadian not having 6!-i----tojne4 iPiir]ia>n&nta(-.¥ sanction t<? build three , diips-, the dcyelopffleftt of a. eo»* siet-ered nftval policy for Canada t§ therfiVovo licld in abeyaiiGo. hobby criticism is csnoentrating upon : absence of proviripti for making ip-ood the cMcieney of tlw Canadian vessels, a.Md tli.e JftuJufo to jiicreaso thn strength of the- Mediterranean fleet. The •JttmsißriaJisis approve ol thei afrsMjco of any ij.fovis.i.oii to repmee the Gauadtan warships.