CRUISERS AS POLICEMEN.
“ I think a very important function of the cruiser is forgotten/* writes Commander A. R. J. Southby, M.P., in the Sunday Times. “ The cruiser—as far as the British Empire is concerned —is a policeman much more otxen than a oombatant. Our business on sea, just as our business on land, needs its protectors, and the fulfilment of that need has, in my opinion, nothing whatever to do with armaments in the ordinary sense. Whatever one’s views upon militarism may be, no one but a revolutionary extremist would wish to see our police force abolished. They are, firstly, the guardians of the liberties and goods of the citizens; and, secondly, instruments for the detection and punishment of robbery and crime. So, too, we must regard the work of our cruisers—or many of them. They are not brist.’ing carriers of hate, but, as I have said, kindly, hard-working policemen, shepherding the trade of our widespread Empire.**
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 293, 20 June 1929, Page 2
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