NAVAL POLICY TO-DAY
NAVY EXISTS TO DEFEND THE WHOLE EMPIRE BEATTY’S SCHEME IN OPERATION DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS WILL NOT SEE A REVIEW By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received August 16, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 16. Archibald Hurd, writing in tile “Daily Telegraph,” states: “There will be no naval review at Spithead in honour of the delegates to the Imperial Conference. This decision is due to Earl Beatty’s post-war scheme of the distribution of the Navy now having been carried out. “This scheme is based on tho assumption that the Navy exists to defend the Empire, not merely Britain, and in consequence most of the men-o’-war are serving in outer areas. The most powerful squadrons are in the Mediterranean. In view of the financial stringency, it is not considered justifiable to bring the Mediterranean and more distant fleets home for a review. “The Admiralty’s more modest plan is to invite the conference delegates to spend a day on the Revenge, the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet, which, though she participated in Jutland, is still one of the most modern, largest, and most powerful battleships of the Navy.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 7
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