THE BIG BATTLESHIP.
DEPARTMENTS AT VARIANCE. AIT ACUTE DIFFERENCE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8.38 aan.) *""" LONDON, July 10. It is stated on the best authority that an acute difference exists between the Treasury and the Admiralty with respect to the reduction of battleships in the new naval programme. While the Treasury insists upon restraining the immense expenditure involved in construction on leviathans such as the Dreadnought—an expenditure which runs to two millions sterling for every vessel of the same class—the Admiralty is equally determined not to give way upon what it considers a momentous point of "naval policy. Whatever may be the financial aspect of the question, it is pointed out that the hug? battleship has been proved to be the first essential of modern naval warfare, and the Lords of the Admiralty —probably largoly influenced by the First Sea Lord (Sir John Fisher) —are resolved to leave no stone unturned to maintain the construction of Dreadnoughts at all reasonable cost.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 164, 11 July 1906, Page 5
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