DEFENCE OF EMPIRE
CONTROL OF THE NORTH SEA THE CENTRE OF NAVAL STRATEGY. Br Telegraph.— fTesa Association.— Copyright* LONDON, 25th June. It is expected that Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, will make his Supplementary Navy Statement in a fortnight's time. The Times, in aiuarticle entitled " The Admiralty and the Empire," says:— "The North Sea 16 now the centre of naval strategy. A victory there will leave us the easy '"mastery of the other European eeas. Nevertheless there must be no loosening of our hold on the Mediterranean, which closely involves our food supply j we cannot share tha position with even the friendliest Power. " The Times hopes. Mx. Churchill's Imperial Squadron scheme will be worked out immediately in preference to any contribution from the Dominions to the immediate battlepower of the fleet in English waters. It says the security of the Empire depends onsolving the problem of union for defence, and asserts that the Dominions obnnot long be expected to accept a system in which they have no voice. The article concludes: — " Britain wants a. partnership far more than support."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1912, Page 7
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183DEFENCE OF EMPIRE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1912, Page 7
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