BRITISH NAVY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12728, 11 April 1904, Page 3

BRITISH NAVY.

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SUBMARINE A.l. (Received April 10, 9.14 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. The “Daily Mail” states that the submarine A.l. has been raised. The bodies of those drowned in her were found uninjured, showing that the suggested theory that the disaster was caused by an explosion was unfounded. Lieutenant - Colonel Arthur Lee, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Gosport, denied that Great Britain was moving too fast in the matter of submarines. France, he said, had 60 of these vessels, and Russia had 34. Whatever developments occurred, whether dangerous or not, Great Britain must keep ahead, for her national existence depended on her naval effciency.