ADDITIONS TO NAVY.
ALLOCATION OF BUILDING.
QUESTION OF TWO CRUISERS.
Australian Press Association—United Service. (Received February 8. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8. Tho First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C. Bridgcman, in a written answer to questions in the House of Commons, states that the provision m the naval estimates is based on the ordering of two new cruisers .in February and March. Arrangements for theso are proceeding.
One cruiser will be allocated to Portsmouth Dockyard, or.o cruiser and two sloops to Devonport, ono submarine and one depot ship to Chatham and the remaining ships built by contract.
This answer is interpreted in some quarters as disposing of tho report that tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, has secured tho dropping of tho cruisers in the interests of economy. On the other hand it is thought that though preliminary arrangements have been made for ordering the cruisers tho Government may yet dccido not to build them at present.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20176, 9 February 1929, Page 11
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