NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
BRITISH PLANS JUSTIFIED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, May 23. (Received May 29, at noon.) In the debate in the House of Commons on the Supplementary Estimate of £10,300,000 for a new programme qf naval construction, Lord Stanley said he shared the Opposition’s regret at the necessity for this very considerable increase in naval expenditure, and at the fact that the incessant efforts made by every British Government since the war to get agreed limitation of armaments had not been more successful. On the question of battleships, Lord Stanley said he could only repeat that they were not building against any- single country, but it had been proved by the mere fact that Germany, Prance, and Italy were all building battleships that the day of the battleship was not over, and it was essential to start as early as possible in replacing the rapidly ageing British battle fleet.
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Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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153NAVAL CONSTRUCTION Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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