UNITED DEFENCE
“MOVEMENT UNMISTAKABLY DEVELOPING.” LONDON, February 8. The “Pall Mall Gazette” states that Sir Joseph Ward’s speech at the luncheon notably ‘ demonstrated that after the Crown the Navy is the strongest link binding the Empire. A united defence movement is unmistakably developing. Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the_ Admiralty, in introducing the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons in March last, said that if. as he feared, two ships a year were to be added to the German Fleet in the next six years, Britain must lay down four. If the Germans liked to make a decrease in construction work, Britain would make a corresponding decrease in hers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 7
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111UNITED DEFENCE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 7
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