THE BRITISH NAVY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
Loudon, March 24.
The House of Commons adopted tho report of the Committee of Supply on the vote providing for the personnel of tho navy, after tho Radical amendment to reduce tho vote had been withdrawn. Mr Arnold Forster said tho Admiralty, in maintaining the navy, was following the two power standard, enabling tho fleet to cope with aDy two naval Powers combined.
The Times says that the House of Commons is aware that no relief of the burden of taxation can be sought by reduction of the navy. The maxim of Lord Selborne that the sea is one and that the navy must therefore be one is contradicted by the writ of the War Office making its provisions on the assumption that Great Britain may lose its supremacy of the sea. This incoherence in the Imperial defence policy tho Times states, has paralysed the Government, bewildered the country, and is largely responsible for the failure of the Imperial Conference. Surely the greater includes tho less, and invasion is impossible if the navy is equal to its duties, defined by Lord Selbourne.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 850, 26 March 1903, Page 1
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