THE BRITISH NAVY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8747, 22 February 1907, Page 2

THE BRITISH NAVY.

Press Association. —Copyright. London, February 21. The Globe complains that the only sequel to Mr Winston Churchill’s speech at Leeds, cabled on tho sixth, is that the Admiralty is parsimoniously sending lightly armed merchantmen," manned by by reservists to patrol outlying stations of the Empire. [Mr Winston Churchill, in his speecli at Leeds, drew a lesson from tho Jamaica incident and a score of needs elsewhere that it was an urgent necessity to establish a squadron of warships of some sort or other to patrol outlying possessions.]