AN INDIAN NAVY
SEPARATE UNIT ESTABLISHED. BILL BEFORE THE LORDS. (British Official Wireless.) (PrcM Association—Bj Telegraph-'yopjrlght. > RUGBY, April 28. The Houso of Lords to-day passed the second reading of the Indian Navy Bill, which has already passed the House of Commons. Lord Birkenhead said that the Bill aimed at the development of the Indian Navy from the existing- nucleus of the Royal Indian Marine Service into an instrument which, though primarily designed for Indian local naval defence alone, would be fitted to take its part as one of the groups of overseas navies, coordinated by common tradition and a common basis to Imperial nava] interests. By making possible the creation of an Indian Navy it would bring Indian naval defence into its proper place within the system of the Indian Constitution. * Viscount Haldane, on behalf of the Labour Party, supported the Bill, and pointed out that strategically it seemed proper that India should have a navy of her own. For military purposes India was really an island.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20086, 30 April 1927, Page 11
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