IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
»-= < . KING EDWARD TyPB BATTLESHIPS. United Preas Aiiociition— By filectrio Telegraph — {jo'pyrighl . (Recei-red December 22, 8:57 a.m.) LONDON, December 21The Duchess of ConHaUgnt launbhed the Hindustan, a sister ship to the Common- .; wealth, at Glasgow. Lord Selborne, in, a spefifch on the ocbasion, said the idea of the King Edward type of battleships- was to group round the Sovereign the component parts of the Empire, beginning with Canada ahid; Australia, whioh had done sov touch for Britain in the South African War, and passing oh to New Zealand — that wbiderful colony, which sent ten contingents. The three final ships of tte class are to- bo naaned the Africa, the Hibernian and- th* Britannica.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7891, 22 December 1903, Page 2
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114IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7891, 22 December 1903, Page 2
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