EMPIRE DEFENCE.
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET. UNSATISFACTORY POSITION. . [By Electric Telegraph—Copyhiohi [United Press Association.] London, August 6. Taking Germany's answering naval policy the Earl of Salborne deduced that wo must have an ample margin of strength instantly "ready, with steady and systematic development untiringly pursued for a number of years. The Government, he says, is not building up to sixty per cent, standard. They promised an unswerving policy and "swerved on the first occasion. They said that the dominions' ships would be extras, and then substituted the dominion ships for United Kingdom ships. We must never consent, be added, to our Mediterranean position being dependent on France, in peace or war. The Lord Chancellor was neither reasonable nor wise when he undertook to keep up a Mediterranean fleet equal to the Austro-Italian fleets. The burden would be enormous and there was no justification for it. With the present cordial relations with France, our Mediterranean position was not unsatisfactory.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 79, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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156EMPIRE DEFENCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 79, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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