NEW BLOOD
IN NAVAL HISTORY.
PLAYING ITS PART
CANADA EVER READY,
(Received Noon.)
OTTAWA, August 22
Speaking at a Government dinner in his honour Rear-Admiral Field strongly contested the view that naval defence could be effected by air craft and submarines. Surface vessels would be necessary so long as trade was carried by surface craft. He stressed the need of'
maintaining defensive measures on trade routes.
The Prime Minister, Mr McKenzic King, in proposing the toast of the Admiralty, said that some people were apt to criticise Canada's navy, but he declared: "The Canadian naval service is new blood in a great naval Power which has meant so much in the history of the world, but should a critical situation ever arise the new blood in any department of our national life may be expected to do its part in a manner which will do credit to the whole world."—Renter.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 5
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