DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 5

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

THE NAVAL MEMORANDUM

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press .Association.)

London, March 18. Air Churchill’s correspondence with j Mr Borden has been published. I The Daily Graphic says that the memorandum casts no reflection on the industrial efficiency of Canada. For the present it is obviously wiser to buy battleships where they can be built most cheaply. The Daily Mows says that the correspondence removes the suspicion that Air Churchill thrust his opinion upon the Canadian Government, but expresses the unwisdom of building battleships.

The Daily News disagrees with Mr Churchill’s statement that there would bo a difficulty in the Admiralty assisting Canada in manning her own fleet.

The Chronicle blames Mr Churchill for gratuitously entering the lists between Mr Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. The alleged impracticability is almost entirely a matter of money, and Canada is likely to acquiesce. She has already accomplished remarkable engineering feats. The Chronicle hopes that Mr Churchill’s sound instincts, appreciative of self-governing rights, will enable him to repair the mischief of present indiscretions. It justifies Mr Churchill.