THE NAVY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 5, 6 July 1910, Page 7

THE NAVY.

1 DISCUSSION IN THE COMMONS. FOREIGN DREADNOUGHTS, -flj Telegraph.— Pres» Association.— Copyright. LONDON, sth July. Replying in the House of Commons to I Mr. J. B. Lonsdale, Unionist member for 3 Mid- Armagh, Mr. M'Kenna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, stated that the Italian 1 Navy Estimates included provision for i tho construction of four Dreadnoughts. 1 Austria, however, would not have four Dreadnoughts by 1913. Continuing, Mr. M'Kenna said :—"lf: — "If Germany wishes she can complete seventeen Dreadnoughts by 1912." s DISCURSIVE DEBATE. 1 THE-CHANCELLOR AND NAVAL ESTIMATES. LONDON, sth July. t In a discursive debate on the Budget, I Mr. Austen Chamberlain (ex-Chancellor j of the Exchequer) commented on Mr. . Lloyd-George's statement that h© hoped j by 1912, when the German naval programme drops 50 per centum, we snail ' all return to more normal conditions. Mr. Chamberlain retorted that if Mr. Lloyd-George disagreed with the placing of £40,000,000 on the Navy Estimates, he should fesign. It was reckless to j hold out hopes of social reforms dependj ing on the naval policy of a" foreign Power. 3 Mr. Philip Snowden (Labour member for Blackburn) complained of the Gove rnment deferring the fulfilment of its pledge to deal with unemployment and , infirmity. He hoped for a day when they had a Budget of from two hundred to four hundred millions sterling, none of which was expended on antiquated J provisions for national defence. r __^___