NAVAL BUILDING.
BRITAIN TAKING ACTION. ANNOUNCEMENT SOON. LONDON, Sept. 27. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Britain will shortly inform the United States and other signatories of the Washington Treaty of her intention to embark on a big naval programme. Ministers have decided, in view of naval rearmament elsewhere, that Britain is unable to fulfil her Imperial responsibilities unless the navy is modernised without delay.
■Experts in recent months have been considering a construction programme, but Cabinet p6stponed its decision in the hope of arranging a conference_ in the autumn to discuss naval limitation, which has now been abandoned. It is expected that the new programme will be announced soon after the assembly of Parliament in October. Members of Cabinet are increasingly favouring a national defence loan to meet naval and a further expansion of the Air Force and modernisation of the Army.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 9
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146NAVAL BUILDING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 9
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