THE NAVY.
REDUCTIONS DISCUSSED. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.17 p m July 31. London, July 31. In the House of Lords L rJ Cawdor elicited from Lord Tweedamuib, First Lord of the Admiralty, tbe assurance that the reduction of naysl estimates would be consonant with the' ere supremacy. Britain was so strong as to be able 10 postpone some construction and await improvements. He added, in reply to a question whether tbe Sea Lords originated the reduction or were informed of any chango of policy in regard to the two- ■ power standard, that be had initiated the desirability of reductions, and the Sea *• Lords were invited to review the situation and make their own proposals, The question of a change of standard had j never been submitted to them. The unanimous decision was partly clue to other Great Powers retarding ship build* J iog. Lord Goschen deprecated Sir H. Camp-
bell Bannerman’s encouragiog the Democracy’s Utopian hoptß. The Demooraoy kaew little cf foreign diplomacy, or of the struggle among the nations for supremacy.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 1 August 1906, Page 2
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172THE NAVY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 1 August 1906, Page 2
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