BUILDING DESTROYERS
THE POLICY DEFENDED
Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May IS). Sir Eric Gcddes, m the House ot Commons, warmly defended the policy of building destroyers at the expense of merchantmen, otherwise the sea. so far as merchantmen were concerned, would have been our weakest Iront, and would have necessitated withdrawing men from the Array. -.The-Government’s action enabled the transport of American troops The submarine sinkings had created one of the gravest situations of tho war.
The, Government did the right thing
in establishing national shipyards, it would have been guilty of criminal ne"gleet if "it"had not made every ettort - to-supply ships.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 6
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104BUILDING DESTROYERS New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 6
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