OILING UP IN THE NAVY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 18 July 1913, Page 6

OILING UP IN THE NAVY.

THE BUILDING PROGRAMME. [Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I United Press Association..] (Received 1.53 p.m ) Londoii, July 17. Mr Churchill (First Lord of the 'Admiralty) in the House of Commons. stated that there were now built and building one huii-.ived o:l fuel destroyers. Five battleships this year would use oil as an auxiliary to con!, and would continue r.s the main basis in the battle line. {M increased the ships' active iwlius forty per cent, and permitted the design.ng of vt-j sc Is of equal fighting power hut of lesser dimensions and at smaller co.-t. r i lie Admiralty intended becoming an independent owner or controller of their own oil supply, and was making a contract with the Mexican Eagle Company with which his naval colleagues were uninterested in shares, or were the funds of the Libe:ai Parly invented therein. He knew nothing to make it necessary to add to the construction programme, and he v.\t not think anything likeh to occur in the autun n in the Mediterranean to necessitate any advance of construction.