The British Navy.
The House of Commons adopted the report of Committee of Supply, on the vote providing for the per sonnel of the' navy, after a Radical amendment to reduce the vote had been withdrawn. Mr Arnold-Forster, Secretary to the Admiralty, said the Admiralty in maintaining the navy was following the two-Power standard, enabling the fleet to cope with any two naval Powers combined. The Times says that the House of Commons is aware that no relief of the burdens of taxation can be sought by means of a reduction of the navy. The maxim of Lord Selborna, First Lord of the Admiralty, that the sea is one and that the navy must therefore be one, is contradicted by the act 0! the War Office in making its provisions on the assumption that Britain may lose the supremacy of the soa. This incoherence of Imperial defence policy The Times states, paralysed the Government and bewildered the e mntry, and was largely responsible for the failure of the Imperial Conference. Surely the greater includes the less, and invasion is impossible if the navy is equal to its duties as defined by Lord Selborne.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 March 1903, Page 2
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193The British Navy. Manawatu Herald, 28 March 1903, Page 2
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