BRITAIN'S NAVY.
MEMORANDUM ISSUED. GENEROSITY OF DOMINIONS. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.) LONDON, March 11. A Naval Memorandum mentions tho generosity of the overseas Dominions. It shows that on April Ist there will bo eleven battleships, three battle cruisers, thirteen light cruisers, thirty-five destroyers, aind twenty submarine.?] wider construction, and with tlie completion of the present programme Britain will possess thirty-nine battleships, ' light cruisers, and 125 destroyers, as compared with German's twentysix, twenty, and 102 respectively. Thouh the estimates show an apparent increase of about a million and a quarter, on tlie previous year, there is actually a decrease, because the estimates include a revoke of £1,600,<X)0, w filch was unexpended.
CANADA'S CONTRIBUT!ON. A SUGGESTED SCHEME. (Received Larst Night, 11.5 o'cloc'OTTAWA, March 15. 'Mr McLean, speaking on the Naval debate, suggested that both parties sliou.ld compromise on the basis of voting £5,C00,000 for two Dreadnoughts, intended for the Imperial Navy, and another £2,000,000 for the construction of a fleet unit, to a wist the Australia.!]. fleet in the Pacific.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 March 1913, Page 5
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169BRITAIN'S NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 March 1913, Page 5
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