NAVY ESTIMATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 67, 14 March 1912, Page 6

NAVY ESTIMATES.

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigl t.) (United Press xVssociutiou.)

(Received 14, 8.5 a.m.) London, March 3

The Admiralty Minute states that on April Ist ten battleships and six battle, cruisers will be under construction, including the Australia and Yew Zealand, eight protected cruisers, indueling two for Australia, two imnarmoured cruisers, thirty-one destroyers, and fifteen submarines, including the two Australian battleships laid down in 1911, called the Iron Duke, Marlborough, Delhi, and Benbow. The Minute gives details of the launching of the battle cruisers New Zealand and Australia, and the hulking of other Australian vessels. Though tlie scope of Admiral Henderson’s report is such that no immediate decision can he expected,on many points of arrangement and maintenance of certain ships for New Zealand, the consequent initiation of the Australian fleet Is now in progress. The cruiser-battle-ship New Zealand will probably visit the Dominion early in 1913. The development of tlie Canadian naval policy is not certain, but the Admiralty will earnestly co-onorate in any scheme of enabling Canada to take some real effective part in the Empire’s naval defence.