NAVAL SUPREMACY.
THE TWO-POWER STANDARD. CAN IT BE KEPT UP? By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright.. (Received December 18, 11 p.m.) London, December 18. Mr. R. B. Haldank (the Secretary of State lor War) touched on the question of naval supremacy in the course of a speech at Hanloy, Staffordshire, last evening. The time might Come, said Mr. Haldane, when it would not b'e so easy as it was to-day to command a two-Power standard navy. Germany, he pointed out, had a population of nearly 60,000,000 to Great Britain's 44,000,000, and fhc United States would soon have a population of 100,000,000, and it would bo very hard for Great Britain, with her 44 millions, to maintain the two-Power standard against two nations with a combined population of 160,000,000. " We may not be able, in days to conic," nc concluded, "to depend wholly and absolutely on the navy with the completeness of to-day, and should the time arrive, it will be on the homo defence forces we shall have to rest our trust."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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