BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 550, 15 March 1913, Page 5

BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME.

£46,000,000 FOR. NAVY

By Telegraph.--I'rcHs Association, (.kuiyrlijnt London, Thursday.

The Naval Estimates for the year 1913-14 were submitted to the House of Commons to-day by Mr Winston Churchill.

As was anticipated the total is a record one, and passes the forty-nix million mark, Mr Churchill's demand totalling .£4G,3O!UiOO. The building programme includes five battleships, eight lig'ht cruisers, sixteen destroyers, and a number of submarines. The total amount, taken for now construction is .£l!V.t. r >B.. r >l">,

The total personnel, oilicers and men, at the end of next March will be 146.000.

A COMPARISON OF STRENGTH.

BRITAIN'S ISM:? PROGRAMME.

Received March 14. 11.5 p.m. London, Friday,

The Naval Memorandum mentions the generosity of the Overseas Dominions and shows that on April Ist there will be eleven battleships; throe battle cruisers; thirteen light cruiBers; thirty-five destroyers; and twenty submarines under construction. With the completion of the present programme Britain possess thirty-nino battleship; thirty-eight light cruisers; and 125 destroyers, as compared with Germany's twenty - six battleships, twenty light cruisers; and 102 destroyers.

Though the Estimates show an apparent increase of about a quarter on the previous year, actually there id a decrease because- included is a re-vote of £1,600,000 unexpended m lOl'.i.