NAVAL EXPENDITURE.
THE INCREASE EXPLAINED. By Telegraph.—-Pre&s Association.—Copyright London, Monday. The Daily Chronicle, in an article on the question of the Naval Estimateti, attributes the excess of expenditure to the unexpected alteration of battleships in private yards owing to the long stretch of fine weather in 1913, and the decline of merchant shipbuilding orders. The Chronicle adds that one heavy item is extra repairs, and another in due to the altered design of several ships, constituting innovations as regards oil fuel, which have involved large expenditure.
Some members of the Government believe that after 1914 the expenditure will tend to decline. Meanwhile, other departments will be starved, Post Office developments arrested, and money lacking for a real advance in national education.
The Chronicle quotes Mr Churchill on March, 26th, asking for a programme based on the prohable maximum the contractors are able to earn, but warning the public of the possibility of Supplementary Estimates. The gun control of the cruiser Invincible is being converted from electrical to hydraulic at a cost of £114,000. The Capetown Argus urges Mr Asquith to summon an Imperial naval conference.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 638, 28 January 1914, Page 5
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185NAVAL EXPENDITURE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 638, 28 January 1914, Page 5
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