NAVAL PROGRAMME
TO HELP SHIPBUILDING TRADE.
LONDON, 22nd January. In the House of Commons, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery (Financial Secretary to the Navy) with the ■Government's special programme of naval construction, with a view to relieving unemployment in shipbuilding centres.
It was proposed to lay down immediately eight light cruisers of 10,000 tons, armed with eight-inch guns, three whereof would be built at Royal dockyards; the remainder submitted to tender.
In addition to this special unemployment programme, this year's programme would include three submarines, one submarine depot ship, two destroyers, one destroyer depot ship, two gftnboats for special service in the Persian Gulf, one aircraft carrier, one minelayer; all of which were urgently needed. "
The whole programme would employ men, and involve a special addition of £5,000,000 to the Navy Estimates. He was confident that the present- Opposition was not indifferent to the needs of naval security, and the urgent situation in the shipbuilding yards, but would give the proposals'a prompt and sympathetic consideration when Parliament reassembled.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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169NAVAL PROGRAMME Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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