THE BRITISH NAVY.
NIID FOR EXPANSION. ._.—— ALL THE NATIONS BUILiJiNG. ...... DEBATE IN THE CCOMMONS. «Oinciai Wireless.) (Received .\la}. 29. 3.15 pm.) RL'UBY. May '2B. In a debate on the supplementary intimate of £10,300.00U fur the new programme of naval construction, in the House of Commons, Lord Stanley said he shared the UppoSition‘s regret et the necessity for this very considerable increase in naval expenditure. and at the met that the incessant enortl made by every British Government. since the war to get an agreed limitation of armaments had not been more successful. 0n the question of battleships Lord Stanley said he could unly repeat that they were nut building against any linsie country, but it had been proved by the mere fact that Germany, France and imiy were all building battleships that the day of the battleship was not over and ii “as esseniiui to sturi as early us pussiblc in replacing the rap-wiy-uacins British biiliil,‘ fleet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 18898, 29 May 1936, Page 8
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157THE BRITISH NAVY. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 18898, 29 May 1936, Page 8
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