NAVAL DEFENCE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 May 1930, Page 9

NAVAL DEFENCE

LATE EDITION

EMPIRE’S SLENDER LINE BURDEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY DOMINIONS’ ECONOMIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.15 a.m., to-day. LONDON, May 14. How slender is the line of naval de- __ fenc« at- the outposts of the Empire fis revealed in" the Navy List, says the \ ■ -Daily Telegraph's.” naval, editor in describing the sweeping, economics a.lfected in the establishments of the Royal Australian Navy, resulting in more than half of the effeotive -hips being placed on the reserve list. “The naval establishment of Cana-la, New Zealand and South Africa, he giays “are even more exiquous ; con useouentlv the burden cf defending tne .scattered State of the Empire must still he borne by the Royal Navy, whun at present has 15 cruisers seii <i« overseas, while the 50 cruisers allowed us bv the London Treaty have to serve the needs of the whole of the Empire, not merely those of Great B' rita . l ?E , “We shall find it extremely difficult in the year? to come to beep our overseas squadrons up to strengtn. As multi plication is forbidden, the Donniuoim can best provide for future defenc- 1 . building destroyers and submarine an developing their air forcea.