GERMAN NEWS.
GERMAN NAVY DISCUSSION. (Australian A N.Z, Cable Association.) BERLIN March 2. '1 here was a lively debate in Committee in t lie Reichstag on the Goveminent's proposal to build a battle cruiser. The Minister of Defence said it was absolutely necessary to :enlace the existing twenty-six year old ship. Even the most serious financial |iositi.tit siio'iild tint compel Germany to voluntarily fibarlli heVoitd the Versailles limits. Germany needed to protect her Baltic ports and communications. Socialists and democrats opposed the construction on , the grounds that Germany was unable to afford the money and said it betokened a revival of the old militarism. The Minister replied that it was not asked for military 'reasons' hut for national prestige. The opponents suggested that apparently the German navy built ships to give unemployed captains a chance to command battle cruisers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1928, Page 2
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