INDIAN NAVY
ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORMATION IDEAL SET BY ADMIRALTY BEFORE DOMINIONS Delhi, February 9. The Viceroy of India has announced the decision of His Majesty’s Government to ■ reconstruct the Royal Indian Marine as a combatant force to enable India ultimately to undertake her own naval defence. Subject to the King’s approval, the service will be known as the Royal Indian Navy.—Reuter. (Rec. February 10, 5.5 p.m.) ■"* London, February 10. Mr. Archibald Hurd, writing in the “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on Lord Reading’s announcement of the formation of an Indian navy, says: “This marks no departure from the policy of the Admiralty.” He urges that successive Imperial conferences be held. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, all arranged for coast protection. The scheme will enable Indians to take a fitting part in defence of their shores, thus ministering to an awakening of the national consciousness of the Indian people and tending to relieve the British taxpayer of some measure of his burden. The ideal the Admiralty sets before the Dominions is to organise and develop their own resources in closest association with the Royal Navy, vessels under the White Ensign being essential to the support of the smaller navies of the younger nations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 117, 11 February 1926, Page 7
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