RIVAL NAVIES
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LORD CHARLES BERESFORDS OPINION.
NOT SHARED BY MR McKENNA
(Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock)
LONDON, March 21,
In the House of Commons, during the debate on the Navy Estimates, Lord Charles Beresford declared Germany to have thirty-three capital ships in 1907, and she probably had constructed 58 since. They must continue building owing to the money invested in yards, armament and factories, and the number of workmen employed. Thirty-one new British cruisers were required l to cope with the merchant ships, which other nations claim the right to arm. Mr /McKenna, First Lord of the. Admiralty, asserted that there : was a possibility of • Lord Beresford's contentions being correct, but Britain did not admit the claim, consequently they must await events. If merchant ships were commissioned, Britain would prove fully equal to the emergency. It was time to consider how to act when the emergency arose.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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