NEED OF A SPECIAL EFFORT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 298, 21 June 1909, Page 5

NEED OF A SPECIAL EFFORT.

Press Assn — By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. v Speaking at Middleton, Lancashire, the Hon. R. McKenna, FirstLord of the Admiralty, emphasised the needs of a special effort to strengthen the British Nayy ;_ whereas Britain had only eight large ships laid down Germany had ten. For the present at any .rate the hopes of limiting naval programmes by arrangements had proved groundless. The speeceh shows that the Government calculates upon three- German battleships in the 1909 programme, winch lias already been begun.