THE ROYAL NAVY
NEW POLICY.
WHAT BRITAIN IS DOING.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, March 16, (Received March 17, at 10.10 a.m.j
In tho House of Commons Colonel Ametw, in presenting the Naval Estimates. said that since the war Great Britain had pursued a policy of drastic reduction in naval aim,aments. She had scrapped 2 600,000 tons of warships, had abandoned the construction of new capital ships, and had led tho world in tho inauguration of a complete naval holiday. The American and. Japanese programmes had partially checked this, hut the Washington Conference had enabled Britain, while maintaining- the one-Power standard, to effect tar-reaching reductions, and to save hundreds of millions in the next docad-o.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 4
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117THE ROYAL NAVY Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 4
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