BRITISH SEA SUPREMACY.
THE CRY FOR RETRENCHMENT. Mr. R. B. Haldane (Secretary for War), addressing the London Chamber.of Commerce, said that the great broad defence of the nation rested on sea supremacy. If we lost that we would have lost the mainspring of our defence. The military power of Great Britain, he added, was based on her sea power, but let them listen to none urging them to do with a navy without an army. The two services must stand or fall together. “Tlie Nation,” a Liberal weekly, edited by Mr. 11. W. Massingham (formerly editor of the “Daily Chronicle”), states that if Mr. Haldane and land Tweedmouth (First laird of the Admiralty) are unable to keep the cost of the army and navy within the bounds a democratic House of Commons wil| -willingly salmtion they must give place to others.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 8, 22 February 1908, Page 7
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141BRITISH SEA SUPREMACY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 8, 22 February 1908, Page 7
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