THE: ARMY AND NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 252, 17 July 1908, Page 7

THE: ARMY AND NAVY.

LIBERAL ECONOMIES. POSYTH CUT OUT ON NAVAL CROUNDS, REDUCTION COMMITTEE. IS THE GARRISON NEEDED IN SOUTH AFRICA? (or TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOET.) (Reo. July 17, 0.55 a,m.) London, July 16. Tho "Daily Chroniclo" reports that the Government has decided, for naval' reasons alono, to abandon tho Rosyth dockyard Bchomo, naval oxperts having finally and decisvcly negatived it. ■ Roferring to tho thinly-disguised attacks mado on tho Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge), and tho President of tho Board of Trade (Mr. Churchill) by the military correspondent of "Tho Times/' tho' special correspondent of tho "Daily Chronicle" explains that the Government has appointed a committee to bring tho military' expenditure nearer to the figure it stood at before tho Boer War. He emphasises tho contention that thoro is much waste in tho establishment charges throughout the Army, and remarks that there is no moro loyal and peaceful part of tho Empire than South Africa, yet it is garrisoned as if it were another Ireland, Ho advocates tho withdrawal of tho Army from South Africa, which would effect a saving of £350,000 per annum. There is not on"the.east coast of England and Scotland a dock big enough to take tho biggest battleships. Bosyth was to do this •and mqro beside. The land on tho Firth of Forth was bought from the late Marquis of Linlithgow at a ctiff pricc, and (he soliemo of basins, locks, and docks (excluding machinery) 'Was to cost