EIGHT DREADNOUGHTS DEMANDED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 27 March 1909, Page 5

EIGHT DREADNOUGHTS DEMANDED.

(Received March 27, 8.5 a.m.)

- LONDON, March 26.

The Labour members oi the House of Commons decided to vote against the censure motion provided that- Cabinet on Monday announces not to go beyond Mr Asquith's present position regarding warship construction.

An enthusiastic meeting at the Playhouse, Charing Cross, under the auspices of tho Navy League, demanded eight Dreadnoughts to be begun and completed, at the earliest possible date. Lieutenant C. W. Bellairs, Liberal member for King's Lynn, is the mover of a resolution which regretted that New Zealand's offer, as an immediateoffer, could not be accepted by the Government for utilising it to" mitigate our expenditure in 1910.