CANADA AND THE NAVY.
100 HOURS' SITTING. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, March 7. The House has completed a hundred hours' sitting, ail the records being broken. An adjournment is now not expected till midnight on Saturday. The members are sleeping on their benches. "DOUBLE-BARRELED CONSPIRACY." INJURING THE ASQUITH GOVERNMENT. . Received 9, 7.10 p.m. Ottawa, March 9. Continuing the naval debate. Mr. Geo. Graham declared that the present Borden policy was the result of the double-bar-reled conspiracy to injure the Asquith Government. He quoted Mr. Norton Griffiths, a member of the House of Commons, to show that Canada had decided to offer three Dreadnoughts in order to make it plain that Mr. Asquith was not doing his duty by the British navy. Received 10. 12.55 a.m. Ottawa, March !). The sitting of the House ended at midnight, after lasting 123 hours. A feature of the closing debate was Mr. William German's attack on the Federation of the Empire, which he declared the Canadians did not favor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 248, 10 March 1913, Page 5
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165CANADA AND THE NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 248, 10 March 1913, Page 5
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