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Navy Second

Second Only In

Size

Spending £9 Millions On Research Criticism By Mr. Churchill

London, Mar. 8.

Proposals for the establish- | ment of naval forces were being considered in other coloniex.

Britain today has "a formidable fleet, second only in size to the United -States," Mr. John Dugdale, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, said in the House of Commons today in reply to recent criticism of the size and effectiveness of the Royal Navy. "Except for battleships, where we certainly have fewer than before the war, we have today as many ships of each class as we had in an aver- age pre-war year," he declared. By December, the Royal Navy hoped to have-in .commission four battleships, three fleet car- riers, five light fleet carriers, 17 cruisers, 34 submarines, 52 destroyers and 43 frigates. Mr. Dugdale wng spenking money and manpower to In the debate on the Navy Ex. serve them na souvenirs to be timates for the next financial scrapped at the outbreak

which, at 1163 million. (another war and probably sunk J'enr.

than for within a few days. are £13,700,000 less the current year.

"We mean to Ade that any Iteferring to the "grent dendmirals who MAY have to velopment" in, destruyers, he fight a war, be it in five, 16 Mudd that the Improvement was or even 50 years time, will be so great that Britain's 24 new certain of having the most up- destroyers had n compar- | to-date weapons with which to uble armament to pre-war light wage it", Mr. Dugdale declar cruisers,

Led.

On the desiion to scrap five vid battleships. Mr. Dugdale said: "It would be stupid te

thyst

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keep

Imperial Conference Suggested

Home Fleet To Visit West Indies

London, Mar. 9. The Admiralty an- Churchill Criticism nounced yesterday that Mr. Winston Churchill, leader the Home Fleet will visit of the Opposition, said the ethe West Indies next ficient administration in the

autumn and call at pre-fighting services had sunk to

its lowest level and there was "other British posses- no one in the Government who gions in the area." of

had the vital grip restore the situation.

The announcement that Bri- tain had only one cruiser and four destroyers In the Home Fleet had caused a great shock throughout the whole free de mocratic world, he said.

Atom Research "For that reuson, We aro proposing to spend about £9 million on research." A sub- stantial part of it would go into research into the effects of the atom bomb on ur at MUR.

The protection of crews from

attention. One of the most troublesome the radic active features wRA contamination of a ship caused by n nearby detonation.

atomic bomb effects reiving great

Future submarines would have the "anort" equipment for taking in fresh air by a, tube

to

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Making the announcement in the House of Commons, Finan- cial Secretary to the Admiralty, | ▪ “TREVOSE" John Dugdale, did not specify the exact ports of call.

British Honduras, now sub- a territorial dispute ject of is situated about a day's cruiso with neighbouring Guatemala,

from the Indien.

"Britain has always floated upon her navy. Our great in dian Empire has gone down one drain and now the the Ad- miralty proclaim that the great

Two British cruisers, Shef- British Home Fleet has gone field and Devonshire, were sent down another."

to Belize, the Honduran capital, amid laughter, "that you are ing territorial dispute with "Can you wonder", he asked last week after the long-stand- checked by Chile, abused by Guatemala blazed-up anow. Guatemala 7" the Argentine and gonded by

Mr. Dugdale said that the Fleet would engage in Complaining that

the Ad- manoeuvres and would returni miralty was writing down the to Britain in early December.

of the strength Churchill said the Navy's real the fleet was not yet decided Navy, Mr. He said the composition of strength was higher than the but it would probably consist Government made out but this of the battleship Duke of York, policy of secrecy was "stupid". the

third aircraft carrier London, Mar: 8.

"Senseless Lle"

squadron, the second crufsor An Imperial Defence which had enabled the British Urging that the five battlo squadron; two flotillas of den- Conference on British marine Alliance to make a ships now boing scrapped trovers and a feet replenish- naval strength was sug-trip of 3,000 miles submerged should be retained, Mr. Chur-ment ship.-Associated Press,

chill said he was told that they gested by Earl Howe. The Admiralty was also in- might conceivably become Commodore in the vestigating alternative methods strongly armoured launching Navy would by now he ap Royal Naval Reserve, in of submarine propulsion, in-platforms for guided misalics. prouching a period when it

Returning to the "Renseless would have something like the House of Lords to-luding those initiated in Gor-

and lying" Admiralty announco- Home Fleet in commission lay.

The development of the gas ment that the Home Fleet con again. turbine engine for marine prosisted only of one cruiser and Alexander's Reply If successful, it would revolu pulsion was still in its infancy. four destroyers, Mr. Churchill

said if anybody had set him-ter of Defence, who spoke next, Mr. A. Alexander, Minis- tionise the whole of naval war. self out to cry down Britain, claimed that had

Mr. he could not have done it bet- chill's advice in 1945 been fol fare and merchant shipping. He suggesteit steps might have been taken much earlier Dominion Navies

lowed, the Fleet Mr. Brenden Bracken, First been in a disastrous position would have to prevent "a clash of inter- Referring to the increase in Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. with not enough trained men ests" in the Falklands Islands. | the fleets of the Dominions, Churchill's last Conservative

"Why could we not have ae- Mr. Dugdale declared: "We Government, who was in South left in the Navy today.

Replying to Mr. cepted the after made by the cannat today consider the Africa at the time of "this Australian Government. to send Royal Navy in isolation, alone lamentable

of Bri- criticism of scrapping of old ехровико a cruiser." he asked.

responsible for the defence of tain's weakneos", had told him battleships, Mr. Alexander said He had no doubts that Bri- the "Commonwealth.

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To put the battleships Nel- mined in the Corfu Channel," Canada now had a far larger the naval defence and security and Rodney into a fit con- dition to go into reserve would made other nations think they float than before the war. The she gives us. Where Is it now, could "twist the lion's tails two new Dominion of Indin they asked.

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sud Pakistan had each decided four destroyeraf Why, that iv and to have navies

dockyard labour for the next of their own less than the Chilean Navy," one India's would include a cruiser Mr. Churchill added: "I be-three or four years,

Mr. Churchill: "I don't be- lieve that was a fact a batlleve it at all. They could be tleship, one cruiser and six destroyers was the strength of placed in basins or roadsteads, the Chilcan Navy, and the without that expenditure".

they might remain, Chileans noticed this point too.

All Rubbish "Hence the alarms and ex- cursions. All our friends in South Africa, Boer and Briton alike, were embarrassed by the Admiralty statement. They

The Services-land, air sea-must combine in gigantic operation, and he and several destroyera. hoped they would never again In the colonial empire, hear of troubles between wars Malaya, had "shown a fine ex- when the Services seemed to be ample" by the decision reached at loggerhenda with one an- in January to create its first other.-Reuter,

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Regarding the possibility of "Let them have faith. Let manning, Mr. Alexander de them 'not be mialad by this clared: "If we need a balanced passing phase of mismanage-task force to go to sea within ment and disorganisation, A one week to 10 days from now, period of wise and careful ad it could be provided. ministration would soon restore "I would. liko, that to be our naval strength and repute known, not only here, but to throughout the world.”

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