NAVAL POWER.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph —Copyright) (Received March 17, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 16.
Mr Brassey, presiding at the jubilee meeting of the Association 'of 'Chambers of Commerce,, slid the two-Power standard must: be maintained. .They should; lay two Jveels; to one.of.any other nation. At Sir Albert vSpicer's instanGe> it was resolved to approve, of the principle of the proposed Imperial Council .'of Commerce.- ' . "■ •■'.. ■■'■/: ■ ' . • .'... ' '■■'■> In- the House of Commons, Mr Loughs amendment reduce the navy vo^e^by 3000 men wajs : negatived by 235 to 34. -Mr Mclienna said that, the two-Power standard defined by; Mr Asquath oh May26th was hot exceeded by the estimates. The Admiralty considered that five Dreadnoughts were not' wanted before 1913. It was afso expedient to delay commencing them until the latest pos.sible period. . : The vote was ultimately agreed, t0... * Tho Pall Mall Gazette publishas ' th© text of Lord Cawdor's memqiandum for tho first, time. The object iavto establish Lord "CharleH Bei^esford's contention that (for© 'is a shortage of cruisers for .the protection of cominerce'. ..'■',■ ;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12099, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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