BRITISH NAVY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1910, Page 3

BRITISH NAVY.

DKUAT.K IX THE COMMONS. CRITICISM IJY MR UALKOUR. KIRST LORD'S REPLY. BY ELKCTItIC TELKGRAPH--COPYRIOHT.] [I>KR I'HF.B3 AS9OCIATION.I LONDON, July 15. In the House of CoinmoTis .Mr Dillon, :i»tivf;l the reduction of the shi|)huilding vote l.ye 2,000,000. Mr An(|iiith (the Prime Minister) said that Britain by the sprimg of 191.'} would have 25 Dreadnoughts, plus two colonial Dreadnoughts .at the. oilier end of the world. Germany would have2L plus four Italian and an unknown number of Austrian. Was the margin ■excessive he He recognised that every new Dreadnought delayed some, social reform, but national srcJirity was the condition of all social reform. Mr Halfonr (leadiM- of the.jOppositin.ii) remarked that .Mr As(|iliTtili nut the els; 1 at its best for Hritain. The little navy party had so impressed Mi- As(|iiitli that the latter endeavoured to .show that everything was going on as well as passible. No Power had even , .approached so nearly Britain's strength as Germany and the margin was inadeo,iiat<\ The opposition last year did! 'tin . Nation good service in arousing the coiMi'try to a sense of the peril wherein it stood and thus condiiicod to the. pence of the world. Lord ChiH'los Beresford and Messrs Barnes .ami TTellaire Belloc snoke. Rt. Hon. \{. MoKonnn, winding up the debate, declared the Admiirfllty's motto would be "safe and sober." He .add>od that the mom out was .apprcaching for tho foundation of a second dock at Rosyth. Dillon's motion was rejected 1)V 298 to 70.