IMPERIAL NAVY.
SOUTH AFRICA'S CONTRIBUTION. DEBATE IN UNION PARLIAMENT. Bj Telegraph.— Pre^s Association.— Copyright CAPETOWN, Bth April. In the Uniou Houso of Assembly, Major P. A. Silburn, Unionist member for Durban (Point), contended that the Union's contribution to tho Imperial Navy should be based on tho volume of South Africa's sea-borne tiaffic. Sir John Merriman, Nationalist member for Victoria, Capo Colony, declared that tin-pot navies were a source of weakness in war and of danger in peace time. He suggested the abolition of Britain's preference and the application of extra revenue to the support of the British Navy. Tho question of the Declaration of London was a most abstruse one, but could safely be left to the Imperial Government. Mr. J. W. J agger, Unionibt member for Capetown (Central), said the dominions should be represented separately from Britain upon the Supreme Prize Gouit. '• j General Smuts, Minister for Defence, j in a reply of a non-committal nature, f>aid the naval contribution would nob be discussed tit the Imperial Conference.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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