BRITISH NAVY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH NAVY.

DISCUSSION IN COMMONS. THE ESTIMATES. NEW ZEALAND'S CRUISER. By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, 18th March. The House of Commons confirmed the vote for the personnel of the Navy. Mr. M'Kenna said New Zealand's cruiser would be an essential part of the Motherland's Navy, and would be manned by the Motherland, except as far as New Zealand was able to supply men. Australia would man the Australian ships. Britain would supply men for those Australia was unablo to furnish, but their pay would come from Australia. EMPIRE'S FUTURE TRAFALGAR. SPEECH BY SIR GEORGE REID. NO FEAR FOR BRITAIN. LONDON, 18th March. At llio Anglo-Saxon Club's dinner, at which Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., and a well-known novelist, presided, Sir George Reid, Australian High Commissioner, in responding to the toast of the club's guest, said whatever the terms controlling the relation of the Australian navy, or the navies of other Dominions, to the British navy might be, the ships must be ready to find themselves as near the Empire's future Trafalgar as possible. He knew that was where tVo Australians' ships would be. He had no fear for Britain while the people showed their ancestors' attributes. It would be unwise to depend on a branch oF the Anglo-Saxon race not in the Empire, whether an ally or a friend with whom wo had an understanding. Understandings were very good things, and should be cultivated, but we wanted something behind them. He did not know what an understanding could be worth, considering even a treaty was worth little or nothing in emergency struggles between nations, which were in one form or another inevitable. There was a greater danger to us, perhaps, in the laboratories of foreign countries than in their dockyards.