BHITISH NAVAL AFFAIRS.
OBSERVATIONS BY THE FIRST LORD.
LONDON, June 10. In speaking-at tlie Shipwrights' Company's dinner,. Mr McKenna (First Lord of the-Admiralty) said: ''We should have the power to secure the ocean highway alike to ourselves: and to ■ others. We have no great army behind the navy. We can injure no nation; the Navy could injure : the trade of other nations, but to injure the commerce of any other nation is an injury to our own."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7820, 12 June 1909, Page 1
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