WHY BRITAIN WANTS A NAVY
ONLY MAINTAINS ONE-POWER STANDARD. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 18. “We have nearly doubled the number of ships at the China station, not aggressively to China but to protect British lives and property and keep the peace,” said Hon. W. C. Bridgeman. First Lord of t the Admiralty, in a speech at Finchley. People, he said, asked why Britain did not lead the way to disarmament. Hi«? reply was that Britain had disarmed more than any other country and had also fulfilled completely, her Washington Conference obligations. All wo were doing now was to make ourselves of equal strength to any other country. We would wullingly enter a disarmament conference but we must ask others to remember that the freedom of the seas was more important to us than to them.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1926, Page 7
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