NAVAL DEFENCES
Inadequacy of British Empire’s Forces ADMIRAL’S WARNING (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Melbourne, August 15. Rear-Admiral Hyde has uttered a warning regarding the Inadequacy of the naval defences of the Empire. “I am convinced,” he said, “that we are damned unless we wake up to what the sea means to us. If we do not recognise that, it Is the end of the British Empire and of bur white Australia.” Slam had 4800 naval officers and men, Chile 7660, and Australia 3100, Admiral Hyde said. At the close of the Napoleonic wars Great Britain’s naval complement numbered 150,000. Now the naval force of the entire Empire was about 90,000.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 9
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109NAVAL DEFENCES Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 9
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