The British Navy.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4388, 20 March 1909, Page 2

The British Navy.

London, March 18. In the House of Commons to-day, Reginald McKenna, First; Lordl of the Admiralty, stated that Britain had 17 ships of which large warships could be constructed ; two others were capable of adoption for warship purpo es. J- 11 ., rep *L_ no question he admitted there was no plant at the Woolwich works for making gun mountings. London, March 18Lord Roseberry, in a letter published in the “Times, declares that while the naval announcement is most critical, the navy ia in sense secure, because the nation will vote all that is possible directly it realises the navy a preponderance ia threatened, but is imperviousness to invasion. .Being related to a reign of doubt be raises the problem whether the territorials are sufficient for Home defence.