CANADIAN NAVAL POLICY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 5

CANADIAN NAVAL POLICY.

GOVERNMENT AWAITING

DIVISION

MR. BORDEN CRITICISED

Ottawa, Feb. 8

Mr.\Borden, the Premier, has decided that the naval question had now been fully debated, and is leaving it to the Opposition to decide whether to continue the debate indefinitely.

In. order to compel Mr. Borden to divide the House, Mr. R. Macdonald attacked the Premier's decision. A great' principle was at stake, he said. Did Mr Borden! protend to know more about naval , matters than Lord Charles Beresford, or even Premier Fisher? Instead of doing her duty as the Aus-~ tralians^did, Canada proposed to give up her status as a nation of the Empire and beepmo subservient^ .■ >•'./ ■ ; ;';