MORE SHIPS. EXPENDITURE OF A MILLION AND A HALF.
LONDON, 21st November. Speaking at Glasgow, Mr. Lewis V. Harcourt, First Commissioner of Works, announced that orders for £600,000 worth of torpedo-boat destroyers had been placed with Clyde shipbuilding yards, and the Admiralty was now adding £900,000 worth of ships to the programme. The Spectator strongly protests against Liberal journals trying to .whittle away* Mr. Asquith's declaration with reference to the navy by pretending that the fleets of the United States and Japan . are not to be considered.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 123, 23 November 1908, Page 7
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