NAVAL DEFENCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 8

NAVAL DEFENCE.

CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION. DEFINITE POLICY WANTED. By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. OTTAWA, June 9. In the.House of Commons, Sir Wilfrid Laurier criticised the Govern"3rment 's proposal to form a naval reserve of volunteers throughout Canada. • Last session the Government proposed to send ships to Britain, but.it now proposed ,to send men. It was absurd to spend money or terrain men when no ships were available. The Conservatives' election cry was "One Throne, one Em- " • pire, one Navy." Now, apparently, Canada was to establish her own naval Volunteers. Evidently the Government was afraid to bring forward a definite naval policy, but was seeking to achieve the same end by degrees. SUBMARINES AT ~ SEA. SIR PERCY CONTENTIONS LONDON, June 10. Mr Arnold White, in a letter in the Press, says that those who have seen further ahead than most critics and naval experts are now called upon to answer the plain question: "If battleships are unsafe in our harbours, where can we put them?" He instances the voyage of the Australian submarines in refutation of the contention that submersible vessels cannot go to sea.