ARMY AND NAVY.
: REDUCTIONS MAY BE-TEMPORARY. ■ INCREASE NEXT YEAR. BV TELEGRAPH—MESS. ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. , London, February 25. "The Times" says:—^A] though tho Navy Estimates'exhibit. a : normal .-increase 0f£900,000, the, real '"increase is under '£14,006,.the''»rest''being:. autohiatic and inevitable." 1 -'The' Times" implies that the Government' reduced the : original estimates by half a million beloiv- the point the Admiralty considered advisable: , r ~' ' : All tho: newspapers; realise ■ that tho Navil : programme -. is ..'temporary, : and;,anticipate' a 'great,increase in,. 1909. . ... . /., / ; The memorandum of .'Lord...Tweedmonth, First Lord' of , the "Admiralty, states ; that the; Admiralty possesses abundant, war plans, and plans for elaborate strategical operations, and. .declares that sound knowledge of long-range shooting -is thoroughly permeating the fleet-. . |/. .
GARRISON; ARTILLERY. ; i - . . London, February 25. : "The Standard 1 ' 1 deplores, the reduction in the number of the (Regular Forces by 5000,' and'adds that the reasons inducing Mr., .Haldane to- form a territorial army furnish an unanswerable argument against reducing tho garrison ■ artillery' by. a thousand.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 7
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156ARMY AND NAVY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 7
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