NAVAL DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 226, 18 June 1920, Page 7

NAVAL DEFENCE

ESTABLISHMENT OP SUPREME AUTHORITY SUGGESTED. • Ottawa, Tune 15. In the House of Commons, the Hon. C. C. Ballantyne, Minister of (the Navy, in introducing the Civil Estimates, outlined the negotiations between tthe Dominions and the Admiralty on naval defence, and said that, following tho Imperial War Conference in 1918, the Dominion Premiers submitted a memoandum declaring that the proposals in the previous Admiralty memorandum for a single navy, at all times under the central naval authority, -were not considered practicable. The experience of the war had shown that a. Dominion navy, such as that of Australia, could operate with the highest efficiency. as part of the united navy under one direction of command, established after the outbreak of war. The memorandum concludes: "As the naval forces of the overseas Dominions came d» bo developed, it m'ight be necessary hereafter to consider the establishment for war purposes? of a supremo naval authority, upon which the Admiralty and Dominions would, be represented."—Aug.-N.Z, Cable Assn. ■ . - ; i ■■■ FLOTILLA LEADERS SOLD TO CHILE.' (Rec. June 18, 0.20, a.m.) London, June 18, In the House of Commons Mr. W. H. Long (First Lord of the Admiralty) stated that the flotilla leaders Baeke And Botha hod been sold to Chile, for whioh country they were originally built, in acoordahce with the contract made wife the Chilian Government when the Ad.miralty took the ships over. , The 'historic names <ind records of these ships would be borne in mind when tho names were allotted to future ships.—Reuter..