NOT WORTH THE CANDLE!
THE CAME OF ARMING MERCHANTMEN. TBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, June 15. Mr Hirst, editor of the Economist, in a speech at Liverpool, said that in connection with the arming of merchantmen the Admiralty should realise that the game was not worth the candle. It would he a terrible thing for a valuable liner packed with passengers to endeavor with two antique guns to defend itself against submarines, torpedoes, and cruisers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 16 June 1914, Page 5
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82NOT WORTH THE CANDLE! Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 16 June 1914, Page 5
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