ENGLAND'S PERIL.
NAVY ALONE NOT ENOUGH.
ROYAL ADMIRAL SPEAK».
LONDON, April 2d. Vice-Admiral^ Princo Louis of Bat tenberg, speaking at the Union Jack Club in London, said that he hoped t.hat one great truth would always 'bo remembered, "and that was that neither of the services could dispense with tho other.
, There were, he continued1, peop3»who said that if war happened the navy alone would be quite enough to keep any enemy from coming "anywhere near the shore of their island kingdom. There could be no rr;ore foolish or mischievous statement. The navy alono could not do it. The presence of a sufficiently trained., professional army in Britain always was quite as. necessary as the navy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 1 May 1913, Page 7
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116ENGLAND'S PERIL. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 1 May 1913, Page 7
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