BRITISH NAVY ESTIMATES
REPLACEMENT COSTS. PLANS FOR SINGAPORE. London, March 17. The Rt. Hon. Sir B. Eyres-Monsell, introducing the navy estimates in the House of Commons, said that £2,000,000 out of an increase of £3,093,700 were due to the necessity for making normal replacements which were postponed in 1932. Similarly, postponements in 1931 had pushed another £500,000 into this year’s figures, half of which was for labour. The Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Captain D. Wallace said that the proposed new construction only carried mit the normal replacements programme under the Treaty of London The Admiralty believed that the British disarmament proposals were simpler in the long run than Mr Hoover’s. The Admiralty was planning for a properly equipped and defended base at Singapore, which anyone looking at a map of the world would realise was a necessity te give the fleet increased mobility in all parts of the world
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 82, 18 March 1933, Page 8
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