THE BRITISH NAVY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 275, 17 May 1912, Page 5

THE BRITISH NAVY

| TO KEEP EVEN WITH GERMANY. tty Cable—Press Association—Copyright, i London, May 15. I Mr. Churchill, in the. House of Commons, said that in view of Germany's .extra naval expenditure creating the condition which he had foreseen in his recent speech, he would bring forward Supplementary Estimates.

THE MOTHERLAND AND HER 1 DAUGHTERS. Received 16, 8.5 p.m. London, May 16. Speaking at the Shipwrights Company's banquet, Mr. Winston Churchill said that his duty was to again ask Parliament for men, money and materials. ft the additional estimates -were not so large as he hoped, or others feared, the Government hoped to convince Parliament that what they asked for was necessary and sufficient. It was essential that the fleet should be concentrated in they decisive theatre of European waters, thus creating a new want and affording a new opportunity for the overseas Dominions. "We could, if need arose," he said, "despatch a strong squadron to aid the Dominions when menaced or attacked, but the main development for the next decade must be the growth of an effective overseas naval force. We would then be able to make a true division of labor—the Motherland to maintain supremacy at the decisive point, j while the daughter States would guard and patrol the rest of the Empire."