IS BRITAIN IN DANGER?
r T .R(F.iAT EKOITEME'NT IN CANADA
THREE! BATTLE!SHIP&. OFFEaiEtD to com with; oerman EIXPANSION.
OTTAWA, December 5.
Tremendous excjjtemenit was created in .Parliament gy the reading of the Admiralty memo-r'anduiin re the naiv'al policy. ' - ■ ' '
TJhe memorandum! explained that it was • necessary to weaken, the British overseas, fleets in order to nope •With German! expansion. Aid from! Cainadla . was- Hk'eiy to produce . a. great effect on otter Powers.
Mr B'orden declared: that nothing less than absolute security of the trade route was sufficient. The Government i nit ended to alsfc for two million 'three hundred and fifty thousand sterling to provide for three baititleships of the best posGiblei -olassi. The Canadian Marine Minister will lire in. London while the. partieipatifiin in the Control of foreign! policy is being worked out, i and'•will 'became a. permanent'member of -Imperial defence.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 6 December 1912, Page 5
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