MARITIME LEAGUE PROTEST.
BRITISH AND GERMAN NAVIES. ‘ ‘NEVER IN SUCH A PLIGHT.” (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 11.10 a.m.) London, October 23. The Imperial Maritime League has protested against the Government’s reported intention to send to the Mediterranean eight battleships, composing the third battle squadron of tiie first fleet, “leaving us in absolute inferiority in Home waters should the German Navy exercise the initiative.” The League adds: “Allowing the admitted necessity to deduct 25 per cent from our instantly-ready fleet to meet Germany’s selected, and our average strength will be unable after the despatch of the Third Squadron, to confront Germany’s twenty-five battle vessels with more than nineteen; and in fully-manned destroyers ready for war, allowing for the same deduction, we are fifty-one to Germany’s sixtysix. Britain was never in such a plight for centuries.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 51, 24 October 1912, Page 5
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137MARITIME LEAGUE PROTEST. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 51, 24 October 1912, Page 5
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