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ed, but instead of seventy winch had been the figure regarded up to, now as the minimum of safety, they had fixed upon fifty, made up of fifteen 8-in. and thirty-five 6-in. cruisers. It had been said that was done by us under pressure from the United States. Hint was not the case. Before United States gave any views on the subject we were having, this subject investigated by our experts. He would declare the Admiralty’s position was that under conditions such as existed to-day the number of 50 cruisers could be accepted for a strictly limited period provided always that other Powers met our standard of 50 and provided also that in our 50 there was proof of proportion of new construction suitable for extended operations. The doing of that was nothing horrible, nothing that need shock his pacifist friends. A good many of our 6-in. cruisers were built specially for war purposes during the war, and their operations were only meant to cover the North Sea and waters immediately adjoining our coasts, and in replacing them the Admiralty said : “We will require To have cruisers got of more tonnage, not of heavier metal or anything like cruisers, that will enable sailors to bo comfortable inside them, if they wore further removed from Groat Britain than those specially war built vessels could go. The saving on the orogramme in cruisers, destroyers and submarines, was estimated at the sum of about fifteen millions sterling.”

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