NAVAL SUPREMACY
LONDON, August 4. The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent, after a careful review of the position, admits that the Admiralty is maintaining a 60 per cent, standard, and says it is pure sophistry for the cidtics to say it is six ships short. The correspondent argues that the British fleet is becoming too domestic, which is unsuitable to a fighting force with a world-wide responsibility. It is incumbent for the fleet to resume the primacy in all the seas, and not in the North Sea alone. The correspondent adds that a reassertion of prestige will mean more ships, and if the dominions do not come forward the Motherland must make further sacrifices.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 25
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113NAVAL SUPREMACY Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 25
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