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BRITISH NAVY ESTIMATES.

BIG REDUCTIONS,

THE SINGA OKE BASE,

The following extended report of the recent discussion in Committee af Supply on the Navy Estimates will doubtless be read with much interest in the Far East becausy

of the references mule to the proposed Naval

at Singapore:-...

Base at

in vota al 23,892,810 for works, build, ings, maintenance, and repairs at home and abroad.

Conunarfer

Evees-Mavsaud (Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) drew attention to the large and sistent reductions that had been trade in the vote ringe the war. Terhueting 1,376, for works services and for certain war

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wed in pasting appropriations'in

liabilities, and

that he had known, would have been rejects ed by them. It was a mistake to suppose that the fanction of the Fleet was limited Op conditioned in any any by its base for the tin being The object of the Fleet was to obtain and retain the cour !mand of

That was what wo dia during the war.

When the history of the war cane to be written-written with a true sense of perspective. Hear, hear," ultimate sness of the Alles was due to the andaughter-it would be found that the

session and retention of the command of ches suss. (Cheers.) What ultinestely broke down the Central Powers was the fut timt after the first two or three months of the war-At any rate after the ad of the Emulu's metroric carver-the British Fleet commanded the seas in every part of the world. I did not slepond on bases. What was wanted was power of symplete medality.

and wisely well diretel, with the strategie presence and tactical skill which in his judgment won the

war

275,000, the actual effective expon diture in this year's vote was £3,337,812, or

He didnt, therefore, attach any em Auction in last year of 2371,257, Com paring it with tim last vote before the warming insportance to the establishment of a naval base This particuler one 11-15-it was only up by 10 per

the cost of works and built was open to serious objections from a gent, although ings and almost every expenditure under strategic point of view. It was at an or

meus distance, from what was, after all, the the vote was 50 per cent, higher. The up- Iringing and the well-being of the Saxy ultimate source of supply and reinforce

ments in

the home

He did not depended upon that vote. As we now main say, its establishment was a breach of the our wer standard and amrition of the Treaty of Washington, fleet; as far. es rapital

ship at all were encernel, was limited, it was of vital but the Treaty had a very direct bearing.

urtance that we sinuld do everything importance in our power to make that flert as elicient and a mobile as possible:

events:

With regard to the welfare of the men the lower deck, they had managed to in

elule a fairly large number of welfare items. He hoped that when the financial position was better the House would not grudge money in order further to smooth the lives i of those men who were often very uncom fortable, and who, in his opinion, were the must uncomplaining and understanding of any body of men.

country.

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COMMEMORATION FUND.

The

We have received. from Lint-Colonel But why should this base be established W. Orpen Sanders. Rd., a copy of the Singapore 7 If it was rail. We an not Report of the Royal Artillery War Com ing at anybuly," the sole justificationmemoration Fund for the year ended The Fund deals for establishing the base must be that it 1st December, 1994

* in a better position not for with cases requiring assistance from every As to the Armament Supply Lepots, the ssion or annexation-to protect our branch of the Regiment throughout the It was formed and subscribet new weapons which the experience of the sea trade in that part of the world, Egypte.

and to defend Australia and New Zealand to by both regular and umporney R.A. war had foreval us to adopt were against possible attack. If that were so be Officers at the end of the War of 1914-1918, deal more complicated, and requiri) a great deal more supervision than formerly thought the propinsal might very well five and suberiles to the Fund in Hongkong They now had a much larger number of deferral, at any rate until the Imperial will is interested to hear that good work

cald

Conference, mines, which, the Admiralty hoped,

when the Dominions could base is being dur and that the funds are be suflicient

been consulted. There was no urgency, being spent to the best advantage, if, unfortunately, war We should not, under this scheme, bare hits which the Ful etinues to give ever come again. They had the para the for which they were imlebted to the genius. It then why urgent, accesity for the have been made chiefly through existing of the hun. and gallant meraber for

(ex-service and charitable organisations. (Commander Harney), and they

construction of these docks, why pr bund bombs

this

Up to the end of December, 1922, the of all sorts. All these weapons were filled lilatory and leisurely fashion!

estimated the cash at Fund received approximately £179,460 in with much more powerful explosive than the

For the form of donations. ate, and further Navy used in the old days. The whent logispur tounless cubosume why donations are not likely to be large in of aircraft had made it allately impe were wandering about the high seas, places the future. The expenditure to the tive to strengthen the dep, and mast where they could be docked and repaired, same date has exceeded the income from them as impervious as possible to attack

But wint about the colostusos thesofías? dividends by hout £10.156, and it is itron the nir.

An Hes. MEMBER: Colossi. (Laughter.) anticipated that from £4,000 £.: E6,000 will Mr. AsQUITE Safe he feared he had have to be withdrawn from expital during his Latin. Did any hon, meuber each of the next ten years. A sna of forgotten!

ally believe that ten years hence there about £25,000, will also have to be with ships or anything like them would be drawn to pay for the Memorial.

dominant factor in naval warfare, in view of the enormous and revolutionary existing policy and methods are

A forecast indient that, provided the? changes which had taken place? The pro-inurd, the balance credit of the Fund posal was a speculation, and even a

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In regard to mobility, the urgest itera of expenditure, 2014,000, was for oil fuel, utaks, and the stowage of oil fuel. What was now asked for was the irreducible minimum consistent with safety. This year they were asking permission to add to the number of flæse tanks : Glasgow, Malta, Aden, Ceylon, Rangoon, nad 'Singapore.

REAL FUNCTION OF THE NAVY.

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na it ought

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outlying parte of the world.

Naturally in making this forecast it

our shores. He continut too strong for any base of this kind in any of these has bera assumed that the calls upon the denounce that idea. That had never be

Fund for Relief and Education wil function of our Navy, Yearly very vital engagement which it ha

Com under BELLAIRS(U., Maidstone) sait gradually diminish during the perioda the base was necessary to protect our shipmentioned, but so also will the capital. distance from these shores. The real ping in the Far East, and because of the jam consequently the income front invest, function of the British Navy was to keep

rise of Japan, which was no longer out [ments.

As the Fund has made, and is very open the great sea routes for the safe Ally.

Rear-Admiral Sir GUY passage of our trade and for the defence

GAUNT (Cmonth still making coramitments, such as Backross said that on many occasions he of our scattered Hupino. To do that we must be in

position to move our ships had livel for months at a time at Singapore's to members envered by insurance rapidly to any part of the world. Until and was still aggressively healthy, apijt policies which ming not be repaid for the eastern route was rely the Admiralty Gel was good to him he would live there years, it is considered very treessary to not guarantee the safety of our again. He sincerely hope that the Com-tain at least £30,000 as capital, sinen Hominions or adequately protect British mitre would give the Navy the base for the interest on this capital sam, less the

which they asked, hin the East.

Could

It was asked, Who are you going to fight." He replied, without any hesitation, No ou. What was being asked was for purely defensive and not offensive purposes,

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FIRST LORUS REPLY.

MORILITY OF THE NAVY,

Mr. AMBRY (First Lord of the Admiralty)

if proof of that wern nowed the ord sail all that was being done in regard to

amount still remaining out on loan, will be required to carry ou the office, in addition to affording any relief that miny still be thought desirable. During the past year over 8,000 unemployed gunners have been personally interviewed-1,000

ed by the leisurely way in which they were Singapore was perfectly straightforward more than in the previous year. Very going to work in building up that round above-jari. If the League of Nations nearly 35 per cent. have obtained employ- Je was an insurance, and a small une, for had succeeded in the last few years it was, ment--some permanently some temporarily due to the untiring wpport it had re-through the agener of the Headquarter the integrity of our Empire.

eiveri from the overnment of this

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BUOCERA

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BASE AT SINGAPORE.

untry sad the other Governments of the Department, in comparison with pr

the cent, during the preceding year. Empire. This They were asking for a sum to enable British

Muntry not only them to develop Singaput, that it could given its support

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Council but had en-

We had HONGKONG SHARE MARKET cater for the modern capital ship. Sing down the cy of the Leauge. pore had been defender sine 1882, and allient Power concerned in the late struggle. more completely than any other

CLOSING QUOTATIONS. they askel was that it should be brought up-to-date. This work was planned before Bat surely the strength of the British

June 7, 1923. the war, and had been approved by the Empire was an essential factor in the

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in a much more been found possible to reduce this to £9,500,000. The sum would be spread over stringent and urgent fashion. We would not a very considerable period, probably ten fely up an indefinite future of peace, and it was because we had so reduced our navál Mr. LAHERT (Ind. L, South Molton) force that it was essential that that force

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The Chief of the Staf aircraft attack. He moved a rednetion in contrary, it was the immemorial strategy those, waters the vote of £100 because the iu fuis.. The future destiny of the British never made deasar elmat, they did not Letters are lying at this Office for

which the Empire had been (Karl Beatty) and the Sea Lords had Nations hul heen touted, because it was: wrong-heuried strategy, Lecause in new Empire might well be settled in the regard as imperative, and they had postpon bass would be a hostage to any possible remotest region of the globe. It took four exfunny desnands they regarded as urgent. chemy, and because it was a diversion of yours for Germany to bleed to death. How It was no use waiting until there defenes trom the heart of the Empire to an way weeks would it fake for us to be un ather Imperial Conference; the question of outpous 7,000 miles away,

done if the command of the outer seas were principle had already been fully agreed upon Viscount Corzson (C., Battersea, S.) i lost? (Hear, hear.) An hon, thember had between ourselves and the Dominions. the Admiralty were doing the only possibla

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It was in uversens, then we should be helpless Singa this new naval base at Singapore, what order would be the uatu of the garrision to be its historie function of operating freely, in

On a divison, the motion for the redp. placed there? What strategic advice had any part of the world that the Board of the Admiralty obtained? He was certain Admiralty had enne to the conciation that tion was defeated by 253 votes to 31-Gov tint a proposal of this kind, if put before it was nential stadily and surely to ment majority la. Lord Fisher, Sir Arthur Wilson, for any of develop the base without which WC the great strategists and haval architects

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