THE BRITISH NAVY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, March 19.
Mr Arnold-Foster, in presenting the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons, announced that the Admiralty was introducing seven and a half-inch guns, equal if not superior in ballistic power aud efficiency to that possessed by any foreign Power. The Admiralty was in a fair way to adequately supply armorpiercing projectiles, without which no Admiralty, would like to send a fleet into action. (Cheers.) Sixteen vessels armed with muzzleloaders would disappear from the eifective list.
The money asked for would be applied to increase and strengthen the navy, which already was in a highly efficient state. Their seamen had done excellent service in South Africa and China.
We had but one testimony regarding the effective service of the Australian contingents, and the excellent behaviour of the men. He hoped this remarkable precedent, set almost on the birthday of the great Commonwealth, would be imitated with advantage to the Empire by Canada.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 66, 21 March 1901, Page 1
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