THE NAVAL CRITICS
LORD BEATTY ON CAPITAL SHIPS. THEIR DAT' NOT PAST. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (The Times.) LONDON, May S. (Received May 9, 5.5 p.m.) Lord Beatty, speaking at Glasgow, said that sea-power was as essential to the security and prosperity of the Empire as ever. The fleet commission represented the minimum compatible with Britain’s superiority and supremacy at sea. The critics said Britain must have ships which disappear under the surface one minute and will be lost in the clouds in the next. He dared say they were right, but the time for such ships was not yet. He disagreed with the statement that the day of capital ships was passed. Capital ships were still a unit upon which the sea-power of the Empire was built. Nothing had yet been devised by the critics outside a few windy paragraphs in newspapers to take the place of the capital ships. The navy must continue a connecting link between the Mother Country and the Overseas Dominions.
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Southland Times, Issue 18817, 10 May 1920, Page 5
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165THE NAVAL CRITICS Southland Times, Issue 18817, 10 May 1920, Page 5
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