DEFENCE.
THE BUILDING OF SHIPS
Press Assoiiiation-Dy Telegraph-Copyright Received 4.30 p.m., May 9th. LONDON," Mav 8. Mr I jOwis Hareourt, in an address at the Reform C-liib, said that the country should have abundant security. It was a crime to build more ships than were liecessarv!
The ''Daily News" declares that there is no intention amoiig sensible men to build against phantom fleets or imaginary alliances.
MR. CHURCHILL" AT OXFORD
Received 1.15 a.m., Mav 10th. , May 9
Mr. Churchill, in a speech at Oxford, said it was certain that they-were in for an epoeli not of panic-building but ,of steady-building. , It was deplorable -that'tlie nations should spend money in this way. It imposed a severe strain on every State, but h would not be Britain that would be the first to show herself unequal 'to the strain. (Cheers.) ; • Happily; freetrade would enable them, unhampered by tariff loans, and without the status of any class in the country being sensibly affected, to maintain ample and effective superiority in sea power over every likely combination.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13899, 10 May 1909, Page 5
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173DEFENCE. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13899, 10 May 1909, Page 5
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