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NAVY ESTIMATES
BEFORE THE HOUSE
First Lord's Comprehensive
Review Of World Situation
SECRET PLANS: SINGAPORE BASE
London, March 11.
An inspiring description of Britain's efforts to reorganise her navy was given by Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, in introducing the Navy Estimates in the House of Com- mens this afternoon.
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IMPERIAL
CONFERENCE
Matters Of Common Interest
London, Mar. 11.
In the House of Commons to- day, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stan- les Baldwin, announced that the Imperial Conference would open In London on May 14..
Mr. Baldwin stated that the Conference would afford an op portunity for discussion of matters. of common interest to members of the British Commonwealth under the following heads;
(1) Foreign affairs;
(2)
(3)
Constitutional questions; Trade, shipping and als communications and allied questions.
With regard to the fist subject, Mr. Baldwin sald the agenda would include an examination of the general situation, together with any relevant questions of a less, general character.
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Sir Samuel said that the Navy was forced, owing to past, inaction, to telescope into two or three years, what normally would be carried out in a décide. Now the House" was asked to approve, the expenditure of over a hundred million sterling. and the construction of eighty ships, all in. The Admiralty were determined to avoid any unnecessary delays, and after pbaskiing, the complementary value of the Air Force and the Navy, he declared that the Admiralty, since the war, bad con- centrated its attention upon the war time lessons, with the lew to adapting the construction of ships to naval strategy and tac- ties, and there was no copying of old models or foreign ships.
As regards constitutional ques- The design of every one of these capital ships, four aircraft carriers. tions, the particular subjects pro- 'ships bears an impress of the les-and 17 cruisers.
posed for consideration were cer- sons they are learning from a new The size of the programme was tain matters relating to nationa- world. Taking the design of the In measure of past deficiencies.
Uty treaty procedure, the inter- battleships as an illustration be- Sir Samuel Hoare devoted his
national status of members of the fore any one of these were laid speech In introducing the Navy British Commonwealth and chan- down, Sir Samuci said that there Estimates to three principal quesnels of communication between. were no less than 18 separate de- | tions. signs which had been tested from every possible angle.
Firstly, were they bullding the right kind of fleet for new con- dition?
them
Concerning trade, shipping and air 'communications, Mr. Baldwin EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTS
said the following would be the There had been large scale and Secondly, what was the naval main heads (1) a general review small sente experiments of almost † policy behind the programme?
of the progress of Empire trade every kind, including explosive ex-Thirdly, what was the future of and questions arising therefrom: periments, to decide; the effect of naval armaments?'
(2) a review of the work of the various explosives upon the various As to the first, since 1919 there imperial Economic Committee and sections of the metal. The result had been a continuous effort, both other inter-Imperial economic or- was that the ships would bear thest the Admiralty and in the fleets,ganisations; (3) general questions impress of a long series of expert- to learn the lessons of the war arising in connection with" ship- ments and the concentrated atten- and to keep abreast of subsequent ping policy, including a review of tion which Nával officers had given developments which WILS even to construction during the last 18 more important. years, to the problems. He did not desire to under rate the for- midable new threat from the air, but they had had 18 years in which to develop counter-adtion, includ ing the use of air power itself and the production of anti-aircraft weapons on a scale and precisior. undreamed of in 1918.
'The effect was to make the fleet generally, and the battleship par- ticularly, the least attractive tar- get for the enemy air force.
THE NAVAL BASES
During recent months, the First Lord continued, there had been concentration by all the three ser- vices upon the most important problem of defence of naval bases from aerial 'attack. It had been found possible to concentrate great volume of the defence for
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Ship designs, therefore, had been based upon lesson and experiment, and he gave the instance of new battleships for which eighteen designs had successively been dis- carded before the final one was accepted,
FOUR QUESTIONS. The First Lord then discussed the four questions bearing on the right sort of fleet required for the future. namely the danger of air attack, safety of the bases, vulner- ability of communications. and particularly narrow seas and of fensive power. „
1914, he argued, had caught the Navy in a dangerous transition stage before it had had time to organise the defence against the newly emerged forms of attack. Now they had had seventeen years
the work of the Imperial Shipping Committee; and (4) civil air com- munication.
.Mr. Baldwin further stated that it had been generally agreed, by His Majesty's Government that any questions arising out of the Ottawa agreements could best be dealt with as occasion offered, in
separate discussions between the Individual Governments concerried,
ference. It was hoped that there and apart from the Imperial Con-
would be an opportunity during the Conference for an exchange of views on the subject of migra- tion within the Empire.
Mr. Baldwin said he hoped to announce the names of the United Kingdom delegation hefore the Easter recess. Reuter..
counter-attack in these bases, the 1 which to develop count could WESTERN_PACT
defence, of which was a much eas
Without giving details, he ier problem than the protection of say they included the fullest use a great city, --
of air power itself, and the pro- Considerable advance" had been duction of anti-aircraft weapons made in the protection of mer-
on a scale and of a precision un- chant, versels in narrow seas, but dreamt of in 1918, with the result the speaker pointed out the pos- of making the fleet in general, and sibility that the chief danger the battleship in particular, the there might come from surface least attractive target for vessels. They had confidential enemy airforce. Sir Samuel stated plans ready which they will be that repeated investigations ear- able to put into operation if anried out by three services for the emergency arose and there was no protection of the naval bases was danger of a long period of the fa- mainly an air force and army task tal delay which occurred in the-showed that they could and early years st the war.
the
would make these bases very for- Over age cruisers and destroyers mildable objects to attack, whether will be used for escort purposes,
the feet was present or not... and emergency plans are being pre-
While he regarded the surface pared by a joint committee from raider as still the greatest danger the Admiralty, the Board of Trade to trade routes, so that an ade and the Merchant Marine for pos-quate number of warships remain sible routes in time of emergency.ed the first essential for the
SINGAPORE BASE
NEGOTIATIONS
Germany's Reply To British Note
Berlin, March 11. Although Germany's reply to the British Locarno memorandum will probably be presented to-morrow, it is not expected to appreciably advance negotiations. towards s Western Pact,
The Note will probably contain objections that Britain and France. are not willing to relegie Belgium from a one-sided Locarno Pact although Herr Hitler: bas given. guarantees to Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland in various guises, and also that the Franco-Soviet protection, the First Lord dealt inPact is still in existence. Satisfactory. progress is being particular with the question-to made with the Singapore Base, and which the naval and sir staffs had in the course of the next twu or given closer attention than to any trade communication three months the graving dock other-of would be working and they were through narrow seas.. now within sight of full comple- tion of the Base, which was abso- lutely necessary if the Navy was
READY TO MEET THREAT- The plans developed were neces- sarily confidential, but he told the to carry out its duties in the east House that if that threat deve- ern as well as western hemis-loped, they were ready to meet it and added. the information" that
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Both objections would have to be removed before any progress -could be made towards the Western Pact,
A semi-oficial communique. emphasises that the Western Pact. must be purely a, Western Pact. Germany would not make any.ob- sections in this direction provided various European powers abolish the principe of military assistance to one another and strive for honest peace guarantees, though the communique does, not define what Germany would con- sider as honest peace-endeavours BUCKINGHAM PALACE -Reuter
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Sir Samuel Hoare paid a tribute committee, representative of the to the very great value of the An- Admiralty, the Board of Trade and gio-German Naval Treaty which is shipping interests was preparing being carried out, loyally by both
measures for ensuring the least sides. He declared it was easy to possible dislocation of shipping in ́under rate
an emergency. the important 1938
that the best form of defence was occante empire with oceanic com-
The Mavy, however, still, believed
Naval Treaty, but this had brought about a definite qualitative limita-
a bold offensive. Attack would not
munications,
After parenthetically nauring the
PARTY
London, Mar. 11. Their Majesties the King and
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naval Powers would ratifs the treaty, in order to enable Great Britain to do the same. Reuter.
FULLER DETAILS
The First Lord, remarking on
the changes affecting the naval Bingapore was within sight of com- reign at Buckingham Palace to polley, since that before 1914, said plation, Sir Samuel recalled the day, the hundred guests who at that whilst so many had been for general objective he had given, for tended consisting of members of, the worse, one was pre-eminently a naval base was as essential for the Diplomatic Corps. that between now and henceforth, any part, in collective action which Reuter. there could be no rivalry between Britain might have to take under London, Mar. I the United
States and British the covenant as or self defence. Asking the House or Commons navies. Also, under the Angio-e anticipated that if the naval to approve the expenditure pr German naval agreement, there programme were criticised in the hundred million could be no race between Britain light of these considerations, it pounds, and the naval construc and Germany in naval armaments. would be for its shortcomings ra-
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PRESIDENT
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ON HOLIDAY
Washington, Mar. II.
Roosevelt left for Warm Springs: Georgia, for a holl- day, accompanied by a party of 11, including Mr, Bullitt.
President
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ESTIMATES PASSED
London, Mar. 12. The House of Commons has pass- ed the Navy estimates, with a vote
of 152 to 57 Restor