IMPERIAL DEFENCE DEBATE ON BORDEN SCHEME

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 7

IMPERIAL DEFENCE DEBATE ON BORDEN SCHEME

NO DANGER FROM GERMAN AGGRESSION BONDS OF EMPIRE SHOULD NOT BE TO6 TIGHTLY DRAWN. By Tel«graph.-Pre*s Association.— Copyright OTTAWA, sth February. Mr. Levi Thomson, member for Qu'Appelle, continued the debate in the Canadian House of Commons yesterday on Mr. Borden's proposal to present three battleships to the Navy. Mr. Thompson said he waa disinclined to believe that the Empire was in any way endangered by German aggression. Germany and Japan had been flirting lately, and therefore the real place for battleships was the Pacific. He ridiculed the idea that the placing of the fleet in the Pacific wa« likely to lead to- separation. If the Empire was ever destroyed ite destruction would be due to the Imperialists and jingoes, for the tighter one drew the bonds of Empire the more likely, they were to break. TO BE TREATED AS -CONFIDENTIAL. NUMBER OF GUNS ON ,WARSHIPS. (Received February 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sfch February. The Admiralty is omitting from the Navy Li*b the number of guna carried on each ship. The information is now to be considered aa confidential. MALAY'S DREADNOUGHT. TO BE BUILT BY~ ARMSTRONGS. (Received February 6, 11 a.m.). LONDON, Sth February. Messrs. Armstrong have secured the contract for building the Dreadnought presented to Great Britain by Malay.