FURTHER REDUCTION WOULD MENACE SECURITY
REPLACEMENT OF CRUISERS LONG OVERDUE NAVY LEAGUE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS OUT. (Received 9.10 a.in.) LONDON, February 11. “The Fleet is wearing out and the replacement of a number of cruisers is overdue. Further reduction would menace our security” says Sir Cyril Cob, chairman of the Navy League in a letter to the Times urging me Admiralty to carry out the full 1928-30 programme in its entlrity. Ho declared that tho making of gestures (by clli|oppmg vessels has proved a mistaken policy,, because most other Powers instead of reciprocating ha.v!o doTTSlderably increased their building allocations. He points out that since the Armistice. Britain lias scrapped naval vessels 'totalling 3,loo,29l'^ous.—Times Cable.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 15 February 1929, Page 5
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