NAVY ESTIMATES
AN EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM BATTLE SQUADRON CHIEF UNIT OP FLEET (By Telegraph-Press Association-OopyrteM (E«. March IG, 11.10 p.m.) Londoni March IG. An explanatory memorandum to tho Navy Estimates, issxicd by Mr. Walter Long (First Lord of the Admiralty) shows that after deducting ,£19,000,000 for nonrecurrent war liabilities and for recurrent expenditure due to war renditions, such as increases in prices, wages, and pensions, there remains a uormal expenditure on the basis of prewar rates and prices totalling ,£37,500,0C0. compared with ,£35,000,000 in 1915-16. The memorandum says that in view of the efforts made during the war it is possible temporarily to suspend production and reduce the fleet to minimum, requirements. both in personnel and anteiial. Tho memorandum contends that fnv from the capital ship 'being doomed, either on account of submarines or aircraft, the war had shown that the battle squadron must still remain the chief unit of the fleet, though advance* 'n science will inevitably necessitate eventual changes in type. Thus it is even possible that the present battleship may change to a semi-submarine type, or even a flying type, but an immediate abandonment of the capital ship in favour of a visionary scheme of aircraft or submarines would leave the British nation destitute of sea power and without the in°ans of progressive training.— Imperial News Service.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 7
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219NAVY ESTIMATES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 7
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