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Show Lord Beresford Says Colonies Should Help Build Cruisers. London. Addressing a' gatlhering of the Australasians here on the naval question, Admiral l.ord Charles Beresford Ber-esford urged that the colonies, instead in-stead of contributing toward the building of a Dreadnaught, should build cruisers to protect their commerce com-merce and to form a nucleus of navies na-vies of their own, after the example of Japan, He considered thai "our insane advertising of Drearjnaugftits" offended other nations a.nd involved Europe in terrioly expensive naval competition. |