THE BRITISH NAVY.
THAT "UNSWERVING" POLICY. CRITICISED BY LORD SELBORNE (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) LONDON, August 6. Speaking of Germany's unswerving naval policy, Lord Selborne deducted: "We must have an ample margin of strength, and be instantly ready with a steady, systematic development which must be untiringly pursued for a number of years; The Government is not building up to the sixty per centum stamdard. They promised an unswerving policy, and swerved on the first occasion. They said the Dominions' ships would be extras, and then substituted Dominion ships for United Kingdom ships. We will never consent to our Mediterranean position being dependent on France in peace or war. The Lord Chancellor is neither reasonable nor wise. To undertake the upkeep of the Mediterranean fleet equal to the Australasian fleets, the burden would be enormous. There is no' justification for it. With the present corddal relations with France, our Mediterranean position is not unsatisfactory."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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155THE BRITISH NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5
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