ARMY AND NAVY
EMINENT SPOKESMEN
GUESTS OF ROYAL ACADEMY
BRITAIN'S NAVAL MODESTY. (U.SII'ED PRESS S.SSOCIATIOX-COPYRIGBT.) (KEUIEII'S IELECRAU.) ' (Received 4th May, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd May. All spheres of public activity were eminently represented at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy at Burlington Mouse, presided over by Sir Francis DieUsee. The Duke of York and the liig". Commissioners and members of the diplomatic corps were present. Ihe Earl of Cavan, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. replying to the Wast of 'The Army," anticipated a time when selected officers would be enabled -o mako tours of the Empire. He announced that Marshal Retain and General Debeney, Chief of the Staff of L ranee, had accepted invitations-to attend the next British manoeuvres fcir J{. Hoare, replying for the Air Force, described the 3500-mile tour of taken"a ™SS> *°nld °therwisß have hMlajW -' ?• Bridgeman, First Lord of responding for the I n °! penal Forces, dwelt on Britain's pacific .intentions, and the absence of warlike oouds on the horizon, Britain he aid «ould permanently . maintain the one times,. Regarding replacements, he expiesseH preparedness to consider any pro- ™ Sent-" H!e f-Ul; thf li,;» i • i ,He Pol"ted out that of 345 ships laid down by five great Powers •nice the war, Britain hadVei. reCi sible for only eleven 'espou-
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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214ARMY AND NAVY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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