BIG NAVAL PROGRAMME
BRITAIN’S MIND MADE UP IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Received Sept. 27, 11.55 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 27. The Daily Mail’s diplomatic correspondent says that Britain will shortly inform the United States and other Washington Treaty signatories of her intention to embark on a big naval programme, Ministers having decided, in view of naval rearmament elsewhere, that Britain is unable to fulfil her Imperial responsibilities unless the Navy is modernised without delay. Experts in recent months have been considering a construction programme. Cabinet postponed a decision, hoping to arrange a conference in the autumn to discuss naval limitation, which has now been abandoned.
It is expected that the new programme will be announced soon after the assembly of Parliament in October. Cabinet Ministers arc increasingly favouring a national defence loan to meet naval developments, further expansion of the Air Force and modernisation of the Army.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 228, 28 September 1935, Page 9
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