Our British Navy.
London, Dec. 4. In a Blue Book on the Admiralty’s policy, Viscount Cawdor announces that largely owing to the reorganisation of the fleet the estimates for 1906 are below 32 millions. The Channel fleet now includes 17 battleships. Rather less money will hereafter be voted to shipbuilding, but strategic requirements, necessitate an output of four" large armoured ships annually* but there would be no difficulty in increasing it to whatever extent was necessary in the event,Of an increase of naval power abroad'.' However formidable foreign,ship building programmes were on paper. Britain could always overtake them, thanks to her resources and power of rapid construction. The change regfrdiiig the education of executive ' and marine officers had more than* fulfilled expectations.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 3
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122Our British Navy. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 3
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