NAVY MATTERS. HOME FLEET'S CRUISE. PRESS STATEMENT.
VESSELS BADLY UNDERMANNED. By Telegraph.— Press Association. — Copyright. (Received March 2, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Ist -March. The Standard declares that the Home fleet is 'beginning its cruise to-day, and', I that it is badly undermanned. WHAT THE PREMIERS SUP-i PORTERS FAVOUR. WATCH-ING GERMAN-Y.. (Received March 2, 9 a.m.) - LONDON, Ist (March. 'Mr. Asquith's immediate supporters favour tho prosecution of the shipbuilding programme, with a slackening^dxrring f the construction if Germany's pace of., construction will so warrant. A NEW SOUTH WALES- DESIRE. TO BUILD -DESTROYERS. (Received March 2, 10120 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Deputations from the Socisty of Engineers urged the Federal Minister for Defence (the Hon. G. F. Pearce) to have all destroyers needed by Australia built in Sydney. The 'Minister, in reply, declared that H would be impracticable to. build the first boats locally. He added that tho Admiralty could not supply detailed plans, which wotld be necessary if the boats were to be built here.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 7
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164NAVY MATTERS. HOME FLEET'S CRUISE. PRESS STATEMENT. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 7
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