TWO-POWER STANDARD.
WILL BE DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN. SPEECH BY MR. HALDANE. Bt Telegraph.— Trtea Aa»oei«tion.— Copyricbt. LONDON, 18th December. The Right Hon. R- B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, in tho course of a speech at Hanloy, in Staffordshire, said tho time might come when it would not bo so easy as ib was to-day to command a two-Power standard in the navy. Ho pointed out trial Germany had now a population of nearly sixty millions to Britain's ' forty-four millions, and tho United States would soon have ''a population of one. hundred millions. "It wil l be very hard for us, ' Mr. Haldane continued, "with our fortyfour millions, to maintain a two-Power standard against two nations with a combined population of ona hundred and sixty millions. Wo may not bo able, in mo days to come, to depend wholly and absolutely upon tho navy with the completeness of assurance which we can place in it to-day. "Should that time arrive it will bo our Home forces in which we shall have to rest our trust." — — - - |
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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176TWO-POWER STANDARD. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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