NAVAL MATTERS.
SPEECH BY MR. .CHURCHILL AT GLASGOW.
POSITION OF GERMANY,
(Received 10, 10.35 a.m.)
London, February 9. Mr. Winston Churchill, at Glasgow,, was entertained at luncheon by the Clyde Navigation Trust. In a vigorous speech ho emphasised the necessity of maintaining naval supremacy. While they would welcome any construction on the Continent, the increase woidd be met by England not by words, but by deeds. Whatever happened abroad, there would be no winning by Britain, whose whole fortune of race depended on her Navy. Germany was a great Power before she had a single ship, and whereas a Navy involved Britain’s existence, it only involved Germany’s expansion. The German navy was in some respects in the nature of a luxury.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 39, 10 February 1912, Page 5
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121NAVAL MATTERS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 39, 10 February 1912, Page 5
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