THE BRITISH NAVY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 17 May 1912, Page 8

THE BRITISH NAVY.

PRESS COMMENTS

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(Received May 17, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Unionist newspapers welcome Mr ■Oral-chill's speech. The Pall Mall Gazette says that Germany made it impossible to patrol the ■Empire; therefore the dominions must play their part quickly to recover the Empire's former naval superiority. Liberal newspapers consider the supplementary Estimate unnecessary, excepting the Westminster Gazette, .which adds: "Britain must either maintain the necessary rates of strength or become dependent on her neighbors and at the anercy of their combinations and alliances.