SEA STRENGTH
POSITION OF BRITAIN-
FALL IN PERSONNEL
LONDON,; September 11.
"Anyone with eyes and ears must agree with Mr. W. M. Hughes that Britain's supremacy at sea has become a memory," Rear-Admiral Stevenson, secretary of the Navy League, remarked to an interviewer.
."Unfortunately, what Mr. Hughes saj-s is undoubtedly true. Enormous post-war naval reductions, coupled with the increases of other nations, have complete! v-altered the position," the rearadmiral added. Ho quoted the following Navy pexsonnel comparisons:—• Britaini 1314, 146,000; 1933, 90,000. United States: 1914, 67,000; 1933, 107,000. Japan: 1914, 50,000; 1933, 89,000. In the ease of the last-men-tioned Power, the personnel is still steadily increasing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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