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TELEGRAMS.
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BRITISH NAVAL POLICY.
ANNOUNCEMENTS BY MR. CHURCHILL.
ACCELRUATION OF BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.
LONDON, July 23rd. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, introduced the sapphusentary naval catimates in the House of Commons, on Monday after- noon. He said the direct cause of these was the new German Navy Law, which he proceeded to examine in detail. Ite general effect, he said, was the main- of four-hfths of the German Navy in full permanent commission, which meant that it was constantly and instantly ready. Its main feature was the increase in the striking force of the ships of all classes immediately available. Such preparation was remarkable, and, star as he was aware, found no example
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He demurred also to the suggestion that we ought to maintain, apart from our general aupremacy, apart from our margin in home watera 窳 local superiority in the Mediterranean øyer the combined feets of those Powers.
THE SIXTY PER CENT STANDARD.' Sonte of the passages in Mr. Churchill's speech demand fuller reporting, and the following amplification is forwarded by
Reuter.
THE NAVAL PERSONNEL,
Dealing with the question of maaring he announced that the first batch of the officers from the lower deck was now bằng selected, and the names would be in nounced shortly.
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THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN.
PERTHAR IMPROVEMENT.
TOKYO, July 23rd.- The bulletins issued today by the physicians in attendanes
pon His
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} GERMANY AND JAPAN.
LONDON, July 3rd. The Koelnische Zeitung, xeferring to reports that Germany had made-pro- poants to Rusin which were calculated to embroil Russia with Japan, declares
affaire. Arrangements to this end could not be made in one day; they must be the result of very mature deliberations, and probably would have to be developed from: time to time. But, without commilting ourselves to the particular form of the SHARING THE BURDEN OF EMPIRS. arrangement, we would share with the Referring to Mr Bordon, who was in great Dominions a feeling which, as the the gallery, Mr.Churchill paid a trilute years passed, would become more and to the efforts of Canadian Ministers, but more conscious and articulate, that we declared that no announcement would be had a common heritage and interests, Majesty the Emperor report further that those reports are spread by a Press Mr. Churchill said: The supple-made until Mr. Bordon and the gher and that in the enjoyment of that improvement in His Majesty's condition. hostile to Germany. mentary estimato
in only Ministers who had been in conference ith heritage and the discharge of first
the smallest instal. the Almiralty had returned and consited the dutics those interests involved we the
more and more conscious that ment of the extra expenditure which their colleague. The task of maintain wore the new Gernian law entails upon using the naval power of the Empire under we were partners one with the other. The number of ships we have to build in existing conditions was a heavy one. All He entirely agreed with Mr. Balfour the next five years to maintain our 60 por the world was arming as it never had as to the necessity for maintaining an cent. standard will have to be raised from before. We had to protect dominion and overwhelming superiority over any com the figure at which we had hoped it would territories scattered in every continen and binntion that could reasonably be sug- stand, naisely, three next year, four and every ocean. There was an earnest sire on the part of the Dominions to kasint. three alternately in the next four years
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There had been no change of
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The journal adds that pot a single word against Japan was said at the meet- CANADIAN PREMIER IN LONDON.] ing of the Russian and German Emperors
at Baltic Port.
BRITISH DOCTORS AND THE INSURANCE ACT.
LONDON, July 23rd.
five in the next year and four in the common defence of the Edni Policy in regard to the Mediterranean, { We have been received here in the most Association has passed a resolution in
in yach of the succeeding years. The Germans are spending about £1,000,- 000 a year on submarines. We cannot allow our
load in submarines to be diminished. The estimates include
and the time might coms to make that Apart altogether disposition effective.. from the material aid the effect of the arrival on the blue waters of these new nations of the British Empire could not be measured. A united British
CHAMBER OF COMMEECE BANQUET.
LONDON, July 23rd. Mr. Borden was the principal guest at a banquet given by the London Cham- her of Commerce. In a speech he said—
but the naval centre of gravity had cordial spirit, and we carnestly believe shifted necessitating the redistribution that some good has been effected by our which was already in full operation when mission. We return with a message of the Liberals came into office. Still, how friendship and co-operation and a de- ever, we had vital interests to safeguard termination on the part of the people of in the Mediterraneau which it was in the Mother Islands that they with the
of the responsibilities of the Empire,
The Committee of the. British Medical
favour of working the sanitarium benefit under the Insurance Act.
in the previous practice of modern naval | £180,000 for a fleet repair ship to be at Empire meant the unfety of the British possible to leave to the care of others. citizens of the Dominions are not afraid, Jachting races have been concluded.
Powerk. German plans involved a re- markable expansion in strength and eficiency. Mr. Churchill in discussing the general question of the growth of modern navies, said a cool study of the
methodical preparation prolonged over ancersive years could alone raise the margiu of a naval Power, and it was seless flinging money about on the impulse of the moment. The strain we should have to bear would be long and slow, and no relief could be gained from impulsive and erratic action. We should learn from our German neighbours the way a policy marches unswervingly to its goal. Provision was made for additional submarines, and it had been found com-
tached to the third battle squadron. The four
Mediterranean battleships now stationed at Gibraltar replacing the old Atlantic dect are to be raised to eight is two years, receiving the two powerful vessels ready in 1915. There will be pro- vided a subsidiary base at Malta, enabling them to operate in the Mediterranean if necessary.
All the movements of the Gibraltár squadron will be regulated by the main situation, but its existence and position must ant be overlooked when I deal with the arrangements for the Mediterranean. It will be necessary to provide two extra destroyer flotillas, one this year and one the year after next.
Dealing with the Mediterranean he de- venient to accelerate the construction ofclared that the maintenance of local 3ight cruisera. We must have an ample supremacy there, apart from general zargin of strength instantly ready. supremnicy. would mean a three-Power There must be steady and systematic candard plus an additional 60 per cent. development of our naval forces untiring- | preponderance over the strongest naval ly directed and pursued over a number Power. This would impose a burden of years, Mr. Churchill said the new which was not justified by any vital construction in the supplementary esti- fundamental needs. The command of the
Mediterraneaïf could not be treated as something wholly separated from the general immind of the sea, and any attempt to confine the naval supremacy to a particular water would be false strategy and had politics. It was not
meet the
Empire and probably also the peace of the world. If we were told that the beginnings of co-operation in defence must be accompanied by heginnings of associa tion in policy, then he would say that both measured by defence and by policy the co-operation of the Dominions with the United Kingdom would be of inestimable benefit and strength to the Empire and the general cause of peace."
In conclusion, Mr. Churchill ridiculed the pictures drawn by the Imperialist and economist section that the Cabinet was waging a savage and perpetual war only suspended from time to time by
and unsatisfactory
unnatural com- promises. The questions with which he had been dealing were not such in which compromise could easily enter. It was easy to change a Minister but it was not easy to change facts. They were un- avoidable and would have to be dealt with however unpleasant
Great changes were going on there and we would not be doing our duty to this country unless we replaced the present inadequate vessels by a much stronger force,
CRITICISMS FROM ALI, PARTIES.
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Lord Charles Beresford, Mr. A. H. Lee and other
critics of the Government declared that
the Ministers were making war inevit able.
Mr. Macdonald argued that the Gov ernment was building in a panic and was assuming the worst.
There was an interesting passage im. wen fr. Balfour and Lord Beresford The former said that it was improbable that Great Britain singly would engage the Triplico in the event of war.
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RAILWAY MANAGER KNIGHTED.
LONDON, July Bird. Mr. S. J. Fay, General Manager of the Great Central Railway, was knighted on the occasion of His Majesty's visit to open a new dock to the north of Grimsby.
The new Knight began life as a railway servant,
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Union, a deputation of newspaper pro- prietors, including Mr. Stanley Reed of the Times of India, Mr. Barr of the South African drgus, and Mr. Wado, of Lord Beresford entirely disagreed and the Englishman, Calcutta, waited on Bir said Russia and France would not help Herbert Samuel to ask for common re- much during the next two years. He gistration for all papers published quences. The policy he submitted was, and his friends were astonished at Mr. within the Empire, and for a uniform Always have on band a very large complain the policy of the Admiralty, and on. Balfour praising Mr. Churchill. The postage rate for all newspapers publish.
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behalf of the Admiralty he asked nothing that was not necessary and he did not ask anything that he had not got.
MR. BALFOUR'S APPROVAL. Mr. Balfour, who deferred his criticista
anater was not extensive, but the number of ships we would have to build in the next few years would have to be raised from the figures at which he had hoped it might stand. The main feature of the new German Navy Law would be the increased fighting power which their fleet proposed to indicate naval disposi- of the strategy of the policy ontland, would possess.
That involved the re- tions we should adopt to organisation of the British forces in various contingencies that might arise.the magnitude of this expenditure we maid that although we might groan under
order that we might maintain the It was clear, however, that the force necessary margin of safety.
Mr.least suited to
had at any rate the consolation that we war in the Mediter- Churchill said it
were not building for ambition. was proposed
to ranean would be the comparatively old raise the number of battleships in vessels recently representing the Mediter
were building for peace, and as long
full commission from 28 to 33, and runesa: fleet, which would become easy
as we were building for peace and security there would also be a second feet consist- prey to a few powerful modern ships. so long would we have the support of the ing of eight vessels. We should have The right way to maintain British inter-opinion of the great. Dominions, thu
· from 1014 onwards five battleship eats in the Mediterranean was to employ smaller states of Europe and the en- quadrons comprising 41 battleships, of the smallest number of modern ships good lightened approval of mankind. If we which four squadrons would be in full enough for any work they might have to could secure even at that sacrifice peace
we shall have done great things.
PREMIER'S IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT.
We
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ene bright spot in the outlook was that the First Lord had promised to aid the Colonies.
Mr. Macnamara mentioned that the es concession to dockyard workers amounted £41,500 yearly. He hoped be; fore Parliament re-assembled to be able to announce proposals which would im- prove the conditions of the bluejackets. LATER. MANNING ESTIMATE. PASSED.
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ed within the Empire.
Sir Herbert Samuel, in reply, said that he sympathised with the proposal from the standpoint of Imperial unity. He referred to his reductions in the cable rates, and hoped it would be possible, in the not very distant future, to secure reductions on certain cable rates in various directions. The deputation had not even mentioned cables, and he gather- ed from that that the Union was not
stock of
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The supplementary estimate for 1,500 dissatisfied with what he had already (T Squares, Set Squares Straight Edges. men was adopted by 291 votes to 12.
PRESS CRITICISMS.
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achieved. He pointed out that if the Canadian rate of a penny per pound AGENTS FOR- for newspapers applied throughout the
The Times, Standard, and the Daily Mail criticiso Mr. Churchill's speech on Empire, the next thing would be a the lines taken by the Conservative similar demand for monthly periodicals. If the rates for newspapers were reduced,
speakers in the House of Commons.
ranean.
The Timer concludes its criticis by pointing out that the debate is memor able on recount of Mr. Asquith's recogni-
commission. There would thus be 33 do. Even without the Gibraltar battle ships against the German 20. This might | squadron and the Malta squadrons it.
The Morning Post says the nation the reduction would have to be extended not perhaps be considered a very satis should be must formidable and un-
would have been pleased if Mr. Churchill to all printed matter such as trade Inetowy proportion, but having regard to approachable in speed by any vessels of
had announced the laying down of a catalogues, Imperial consideration which Mr. Asquith emphasised that they were the character of the vessels the arrange equal power building or projected by the
squadron of eight battleships, correspond. was cogent for Canada did not apply, to most ment proposed would, in the opinion of Mediterranean combination. Speed and nasal race.
reluctant competitors in the
ing with the cruisers in the Mediter anything like the same extent, to other They had only become so the Admiralty, be adequate to the needs of gun-power offered the highest advantages, under compulsion of circumstances. He
portions of the Empire. He suggested 1914-15. Mr. Churchill dwelt exhaustive especially for the protection of trade, and wished ho could dissent from Mr.
that the newspapers should print over-
ly on the question of manning, declaring
The half- seas editions on thin paper. in conjunction with the French navy Balfour's prediction of further increase that it would be necessary to make large
penny rate for English rowspapers was additions to the personnel for the next it would be superior to all possible of expenditure in the future. This ex
heard in determining imperial policy. in oxtending it? He would, however, four years. He foreshadowed an increase combination. These vessels could be spared penditure, however, was justified, because tion of the right of the Dominions to be unremunerative. Would they be justified of pay and promised definite proposals in from home oving to the great superiority we had to maintain, firstly, the security It says that Mr. Borden must have give the proposal fresh consideration, for the autumn. A Royal Commission under of our powerful cruisers over those of of our shores, our Dominions and our the presidency of Sir John Fisher would the strongest naval Power. It was not commerce, and, secondly, the peace of the Lo appointed to enquire into the question unlikely that the Mediterranean squadron world.
would require reinforcing by the end of of the application of liquid fuel in wur- ships The enquiry would be a long busique time when the Adiniralty received 1915-16. If 90, steps would be taken in
ness and portended no sudden nor exten sive changes in our methods of naval con-
information indicating that one of the monts, they would fall short of no-, the history of the Empire with the an- inland rate should be extended only to
knowledge of their prospective require that a new page was turned yesterday in condition now proposed was that they Mediterranean Powers was contemplating thing the advisers deemed necessary to nouncement of Canada's offer to share the newspapers published in parts of the Em- struction.
another considerable anval programme, fully safeguard British interests in the burden and also the right of the pire, which gave reciprocal rates to
Mediterranean as in bvery part of the
Dominions to be called to the Councils papers published in the United Kingdom. world.
Although this involved a loss to the After referring to the visit of the
of the Empire. --
The Daily Chronicle welcomes the mani Exchequer he did not feel justified mere- festations of Colonial aid, and says that ly in negativing the second proposal and ralief of the burden is only obtainable he would consider and, if necessary, con- by improvement in the Empire'a relations sult his colleagues whether further legis
with Germany,
· THE SITUATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. "
He assured the House when the next Estimates were presented with added
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and if this were correct it would con- Turning to the subject of the Mediter-stitute a new factor requiring prompt at- raneun, the right hon. gentleman pointed tention, and would not be included in the. out that the naval pusition there was forecasts he had given as to future aavali Canadian Ministers in similar terms to about to undergo very important.changes construction. It had been determined to what Mr. Churchill had done, he added in view of the advent of the Italian and withdraw six of the oldest battleships that side by side with the growing parti Austrian Dreadnoughts. He demurred from the Mediterrancan and replace eipation in the active burdens of the altogether to the assumption that they them by four battle cruisers of the In Empire on the part of the Dominions might combine together in attacking us. vincible type. These Invincibles would there rested with us undoubtedly the duty Their past history was not altogether go out in the winter. Further, the arm- free from differences, but they never had oured cruiser squadron would be replaced of making such a response as we could to, any quarrel with us. We had long been by inore powerful armoured cruiser, and their obviously reasonable appeal to be
on the friendliest and most cordial terms.
realised the moral`affect of his visit is it came in a new form as it was now already a considerable addition to the
suggested that the inland rate be extend- prostige of the Empire.
The Daily Telegraph is whole hearted ed only to newspapers conforming to in da praise of Mr. Churchill. It says our registration conditions. The second
lation would be necessary. He must rew The Daily News ask if it is impossible gard the matter from a financial view to turn bark upon the fatal, path of the point, and would not commit the Tren-/ Anglo-French and Anglo-Russian friend sury. He could only promise to give the a torpedo dation would be established heard in the determination of the E ships. The supreme task of the Liberal proposal his most careful and sympathe
Government ought to he Anglo-Germanic consideration. pire's policy and the direction of its
friendship,
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