NAVY ESTIMATES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 68, 15 March 1912, Page 6

NAVY ESTIMATES.

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME

'By Electric Telegraph .—CopyrigJ t.) (United Press Association.)

(Received 11, 8.5 a.m.) London, March 3

The Admiralty Minute slates that on April Ist ten battleships and six battle cruisers will be under construction, including the Australia and New Zealand, eight protected cruisers, including two for Austral a, two nonarmourecl cruisers, thirty-one destroyers, and fifteen submarines, including the two Australian battleships laid down in 1911, called the Iron Duke, Marlborough, Delhi, and Beubow. The Mi ante gives details of the launching of the battle -cruisers New Zealand and Australia, and the bnildhig of other Australian vesseds. Though the scope of Admiral Henderson’s report is such that no immediate decision can be -expected on many points of arrangement and maintenance of certain ships for New Zealand, the consequent initiation of the Australian fleet is now in progress. The cruiser-battle-ship New Zealand will probably visit the Dominion early in 1913. The development of the Canadian naval policy is not certain, hut the Admiralty will earnestly co-operate in any scheme of enabling Canada to take some real effective part in the Empire’s naval defence.