BRITISH NAVY
Weakness Discussed LONDON, April 8. “The British fleet in the eastern Mediterranean more than anything else prevented the war between Italy and Abyssinia from spreading to a general conflagration, yet that fleet was only brought up to the necessary strength by drawing on the Home, China and American stations and even on the Australian and New Zealand naval forces,” declares Captain Edward Altham in an article in' Brassey’s Naval Annual. “The effort required to restrain even a second-class naval Power necessitated the denuding of our Home and overseas squadrons to an extent wh ell would have made it most difficult to safeguard our ocean shipping it trouble had arisen elsewhere, ’n fact, fhe Fleet’s strength is so reduced flat when it was put to test it was found to have nc margin over the secondclass standard.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 9
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