DEFENCE OF TEE EMPIRE.
BRITISH CABINET DISSENSIONS.
ADMIRALTY'S PROPOSAL,
THREATS OF RESIGNATION
Received February 7, 4.25 p.m LONDON, February 6,
In connection with the Cabinet dissensions, with regard to the new construction vote on the Naval Estimates, whereby the Admiralty propose an immediate addition of two and a-half millions, increasing to five millions and six millions in aucceedirg years, the "Daily Express" states that the Lords of the Admiralty have informed Cabinet that unless the pru.<Vramme is accepted they will resign in a body. : Viscount Morley (Secretary for India), and Mr John Burns (President of the Local Government Board) withdrew their opposition, but Mr D. Lloyd-George ( Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Mr Winston Churchill (President of the Board of Trade) continue to oppose the Admiralty's proposal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3110, 8 February 1909, Page 5
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126DEFENCE OF TEE EMPIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3110, 8 February 1909, Page 5
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