"WRETCHED TIN-POT NAVIES"
■« CONDEMNED BY THE CAPE PREMIER. By Telegraph—Press As3ociation--Copyright. (Reooived October 29, 10.10 p.m.) CAPETOWN, October 29. Speaking in the Assembly yesterday Mr J. X. Merriman, the Premier, announced that ho was asking Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to publish the deliberations of the Imperial Defence Conference. He added that ho and the Transvaal representative strongly opposed "wretched tin-pot navies," and he hoped that in future the British naval programme would be discussed in the Colonial Parliaments beforehand.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6962, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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