The Navy’s Future.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 45, 5 February 1920, Page 5

The Navy’s Future.

NO NEW BUILDING. DOMINIONS’ RELATIONSHIP. SEA POWER NECESSARY. TILL SUPERSEDED BY AIR. I By Cable.—Prosa Aiaooiatlon. -Copyright.] (Received 5, 8.50 a.m.) London, Feb. 3. The “Daily Expresses” naval correspondent states he is certain the forthcoming Estimates do' not provide for a new building programme. We are well supplied with ships of all classes for our immediate needs. Moreover, experts have not completed an exhaustive examination of the war’s lessons. . A most important question of the policy arises in connection with relationship with the dominions Au vocates of air power will ridicule Lord Jellicoe’s Australian and New Zealand schemes, but Lord Jellicoe is only planning for the next five vears, wherein it is inconceivable that aircraft will completely supersede sea-going ships. The expense is a stumbling block, but we must still be prepared to continue untn 1925. the navaFprotection .of our commerce. The shifting of centre naval gravity to the Indian Pacific ocean, mayresult in the main squ&drons abandoning British. even European waters. Lord Jellicoe will be able to advise on this pressing financial problem.—(A. and N.Z.) FAITH IN NAVY. AN EMPIRE WIDE TRAIT. London, Feb. 3 Lord Jellicoe. interviewed said he was deeply impressed with the loyalty of the Dominions and their belief in the Imperial Navy. The Dominions have the keenest perception of sea power, and fully recognised that if they maintain their own naval forces they will requffe to act in close cooperation with the Imperial Navy in case of need. / JELLICOE’S RETURN. OLD VICTORY’S SALUTE. London, Feb. 3. Lord Jellicoe landed at Portsmouth, receiving a warm welcome. The “V ictorv's” guns fired the Admiral’s salute. Lord Jellicoe proceeded to the Isle of Wight.—l A. and N.Z.)