SOUTH AFRICAN DEBATE
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I'R.ecd 5 p.m.)
CAPETOWN, April 8.
In the Assembly Lord Selburn con tended that the Union's contribution to the' imperial navy should be based on the volume- oi sea-borne traffic.
Mr Merriman. declared that Finpot navies would be a source of weakness in war and danger in peace. He suggested the abolition of Britain's preterence and/ the application of extra revenue in support of the British
The que&iiGir oi . tne declaration of London was most abstruse and could sately be left to the Imperial , Government.
Mr Jagger said that the Dominions should be . represented separately like Britain upon the supreme prize, court.
' Mr. Smuts, in reply, was non-com-mittal. He said that the naval contribution could not . t'e discussed at the Imperial Conference.
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Grey River Argus, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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