THE ENGLISH NAVY.
♦ A GIFT FROM THE CAPE GOVERNMENT. (Per 1 'nss Axxocwtion. — L'ojii/rii/ht.) Londox, July 10. The Government of C'ape Colony has offered to present a iii\«t-ela.-5.s battleship as a free gift to the Empire. The Right Hon. Mr Gosehen, in reply, intimates that he gra'.e fully accepts the offer, and remarks that the gift is the more valuable because it is unfettered with conditions. Sir Gordon Sprigg, addressing a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Imperial Federation League, said the Cape's naval subsidy to the British Navy was absolutely unconditional. They did not believe in fettering the Admiralty, preferring to trust England.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 370, 12 July 1897, Page 3
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105THE ENGLISH NAVY. Hastings Standard, Issue 370, 12 July 1897, Page 3
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