EMPIRE DEFENCE.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4311, 15 November 1909, Page 5

EMPIRE DEFENCE.

NEED OF A STRONG NAVY.

London, November 13,

Admiral Bowden Smith, speaking at a meeting of the National Service League, remarked that Prince Henry of Prussia, recently conversing with a friend, stated that the German Emperor was deeply affected by English criticisms of himself. While repudiating any intention of teaching England, he considered that England should have a strong tenitorial army by compulsion. Admiral Bowden Smith urged the need of a strong Navy and a booa fide territorial force to give the Navy more freedom of action. If they had a stronger Navy, it would remove a great temptation from Germany, but at present it could hardly be said that Great Britain had command of the sea beyond her own shores. CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY. (Received 15. 8 35 a.m.) Ottawa, [November 14. Mr Monk, Leader of the Opposition, has only five adherents in opposition to Hr Wilfrid Laurier's naval policy. NATAL SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITIES. London, November 14. Reuter's Maritzburg correspondent reports that the Commandant of the Militia urges the imperative need of universal compulsory military training, adding that Natal, notwithstanding its ever present native trouble, was shirking its responsibilities.