NAVY ESTIMATES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 5

NAVY ESTIMATES.

RADICAL ECONOMISERS.

THE ROSYTH NAVAL BASE,

BY TELEGRAPH—riIESS ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT,

London, Fobruary 13. ~ Tho Radicals aro strongly pressing the Government to reduce tho Navy Estimates.

The Right Hon. G. Wyndham (a former Chief Secretary for Ireland), 'addressing the Nineteen Hundred Club, said .that if Great Britain wished to retain supremacy of the sea sho'must increase her Dreadnoughts and complete tho base at Rosyth without delay. Britain'must hfcvcr lower the Union Jack boforo tho rod flag of cosmopolitan Socialism.- -

GUILLOTINE IN THE COMMONS,

London, February 13.

A day's debate on tho guillotine resolution, introduced 1 by the Government to expedite' the passage through tho Houso of Commons of tho Scottish Small Landowners' and Land Values: Bills, has begun.' 1 .

' The' Prime Minister, Sir Henry CampbellBarinerman,' in a conciliatory speech, confessed' that the House: of' Lords was justified m'rojecting the two measures,' as they had been submitted t'oo ; late' for due consideration ; hence ■ tho gtiillotino resolution, for lie maintained that ; the. Houso of Commons had inaturcly considered the Bills, and that it was' unnecessary to waste' time in debating them again. l ■ ' ,

-\lr.: Balfour, Leader of the, Opposition, strongly donied that ;tho. Bills, ,had been adequately.. discussed ,in tho , House , of Commons. Referring ,to tho by-elections, lie said the Government was not in a position to revolutionise the constitution,; of the' House of Lords. .. .

NO EIG DOCK ON EAST COAST.

| '/Along the whole east coast of England and pcotland, stated. Lord Tweedmouth in a speech on Admiralty policy, there is not a 'single uoclc capable of accommodating the larger battleships. .; The-. Government had accordingly ; dociUed to open a now naval establishment at Jlosyth, on' the Firth' of Forth, as tlie most-suitable and useful place available. Ilie .l'wst Lord went on to state that, the: Admiralty intended'first to construct a graving dock capable' of taking the biggest- ships; then ■ a largebasin: and quays which would accommodate.,22 .warships, 'or ,44'.. if doublcbanked. The depth at all tides' would be 3G f eet, and access would bo through a lock 800 feet long. He did not think that when tho works were completed they would involvo any ,'jcry.- increasedi cost - .on tile, dockyard establishments of, tho country.