ARMAMENT WAR.
MR CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT. (By Electric Telegraph—Copybight.) (Peb Press Association.) Received March 4, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, March 3. Mr Churchill, m reply to Mr Allen Baker concerning the British and German shipbuilding programmes, said the displacements of all British battleships were considerably below those of almost all latest being constructed abroad. The Admiralty was willing to join in an agreement limiting the size of capital ships. MORE SHIPS FOR GERMANY. Received March 4, 8.45 a.m. . BERLIN, March 3. The president of the Navy League in a speech at Oldenburg, forecasted a fresh campaign for more ships. AERIAL ARMAMENTS. BRITAIN'S ADVANCE. LONDON, March 3. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, said the"ultimate development of the naval aerial service would be productive of considerable reductions in other classes of naval weapons. Although the airships progress was modest compared with French and German achievements we had a great and growing superiority in seaplane service.
Mr Churchill has anonunced that he is ordering a large rigid airship of the Zeppelin type from Vickers', one of the Astra Torres type from France and three semi-rigids from Armstrong's BERLIN, March 3. A Lanz airship provided with a platform for guns and bomb-throwing apparatus made a satisfactory trial.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 5
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