PRESS COMMENTS.
(Received March 11, 9.5 a.ui ) LONDON, Saturday. " The Times " eays that the naval proposals are wise, courageous, and satisfactory. [The new programme submitted to the House of Commons in I*ebnjary last year conaiß ed of 2 battleship?, 2 armoured cruiser.*, 2 third-claas cruisers, 4 tor- , pedo boats, and 4 submarines. The bat- } ', tleship3 are ta be of the same type as the I ! King Edvrar.l VII, and tho two of fche ; original programme to be built will bel r the New Zealand afc Portsmouth and fche j , Hindustan at Clydebank. l'he best iu- J geuuity of the nation has been devoted f v t > the construction of tbe " Scout " boats, j x [and lhe destroyed, according lo the uow
policy, are to be constructed by steady as i opposed fi spasmodic effort. Sheeruess , is to be used more and more 83 the epeci- | fio dockyard at wbich the deetroyei s are to be repaired.]
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 47, 11 March 1903, Page 2
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156PRESS COMMENTS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 47, 11 March 1903, Page 2
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