THE BRITISH NAVY
DRASTIC ECONOMIES NO NEW CONSTRUCTION. LONDON, December 30. (Received Dec. 30, at 10.30 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s naval contributor says drastic economies are being arranged, under which new construction and important relittings of warships will have to be postponed. The fleet’s training programme for 1932 will also be ruthlessly pruned in order to save expenditure on oil, which is 55a per ton. This decision is regretted as it. comes at a time when foreign navies are planning manoeuvres on an imposing scale. Unless the British fleets have a reasonable amount of exercise under war conditions naval efficiency cannot be maintained.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21531, 31 December 1931, Page 11
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