LONDON’S BULWARKS.
CLOSING'CHATHAM
SOCO WORKERS INVOLVED. LONDON. Dee. 15—The Evening News says that the Admiralty definitely i ontempintos closing Chatham dockyard, which has been ruga wind 1 lot 300 years us London’s last bulwark of defence. It. is estimated that 60C0 workers wdl be dismissed, and, roughly. £1,020.C00 ii veal’ will .be saved. It is explained that it is now impossible for Britain’s biggest, warships to roach Chatham owing to the shallowness of the river; also, that the greatest naval concentration is located in the Mediterranean, whom Malta provides adequate facilities. Chatham, however, will b« capable ol ■/cslnnitioiv to activity at short notice it required.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 9
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105LONDON’S BULWARKS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 9
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