CANADA'S NAVY.
SPEECH BY HON. R. L. BORDEN
LIBERALS CRITICISED
(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) OTTAWA, March 25.
The Hon R. L. Borden, replying to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, stated that if contracts were let immediately for the construction of three battleships, they would not be completed until the next general election and then, if tho Canadians belioved the battleships ought te be recalled from British waters, the Government could recall them, proceeding afterwards to build a Canadian fleet. He denied any attempt to gag discussion, and said the Liberals were providing a regrettable spectacle for the woifd and the Empire, in .refusing to grant aid, which the Mother Country's Ministers asserted die needed. The Liberals' alternative policy entait'.ed a cost Of £30,000,000, spread over a period of ten years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 March 1913, Page 5
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129CANADA'S NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 March 1913, Page 5
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