NAVAL MATTERS.

Southland Times, Issue 16692, 22 March 1911, Page 5

NAVAL MATTERS.

LORD BERESFORS AGAIN MR McKESSA I’SMOTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). LOXDOX. March 21. Received March 21, 10.15 p.m. In the House of Commons during the Navy Estimates debate, Lord Beresford declared that Germany had 33 capital ships in 1907; had built probably 58 since, and must continue building owing to the amount of money invested in yards and armament factories and the number of workmen employed. Thirty-one new British cruisers were required to cope, with the merchant ships which other nations claimed the right to arm. Mr McKenna (First Lord) asserted the possibility of Lord Beresford’s contentions; but said that Britain did not admit the claim and consequently must await events. If merchant ships were commissioned Britain would prove fully equal to the emergency; and it would bo time to consider how to act when an emergency arose. WORLD’S RECORD SHOOTING. . MELBOURNE. March 21. At the annual naval gun-layers’ test Petty Officer Moody, of the Powerful, placed six shots on an eight-foot target, at a range of two thousand yards, in thirty-six seconds, which is a world’s record. DESTROYERS’ DEFECTS, RIGHTED. MELBOURNE, March 21. Received March 21, 11.25 p.m. The defects in the destroyers have been rectified, and they answered their helms to-day.