AUSTRALIAN NAVY.
MELBOURNE, June 27. In -the Federal Senate, Senator Millen outlined thp modified naval programme. * In place of three submafines and six' destroyers first proposed it is intended to build two light crui scs of the Brisbane class and two impitfyed submarines? The rea.JMo foi the change was that it was nut improbable that the present *type ot destroyer would disappear altogether, be ing replaced by the immersible torpedoer, and that cruisers would be oi ttiore naval value than torpedoers. The cost of the modified programme .'''. spread over fivs years.
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Grey River Argus, 29 June 1914, Page 7
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