THE BRITISH NAVY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9687, 11 January 1910, Page 5

THE BRITISH NAVY.

THE GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION. TO PUT BRITAN IN A SAFE POSITION. STATEMENT BY MR LLOYDGEORGE. Received January 10, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, January 10. Mr D. Lloyd-George addressed an audience of 11,000 at Plymouth. In the course of his speech Mr Lloyd-George said it might be imagined from the talk during the last few days that the Government "had made no provision for increasing the security of our shores. The Government had really added nearly three millions to the navy, and would add many more millions during the next year. He predicted that the eestimates would not be far short of forty millions. He was not one who thought the British sailors incompetent to meet any sailors in the world. At any iate the Government was going to put it beyond question that Britain was absolutely safe. DISPERSION v. CONCENTRATION. DANGER PROM GERMANY. | Received January 10, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, Januay 10. Mr Eonar Law, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the last Conservative Government, addressing the electors at Camberwell, said that w.hile the British fleet had been dispersed, Germany's had been concentrated in the North Sea. "Germany's army," added the speaker, "is the most efficient in the .world, and if she went to war with us she could strike us down without the possibility of our offering resistance if she had command of the Channel; hence we must have an unchallenged navy."