Show BRITISH BRISH NAVAL NAVA PUT INTO WORDS BY THE ADMIRALTY LORD Inne Ml Lin In n the th house hOUle of this Usia U evening the te navy expendi expenditure ture t 11 re 0 len lengthily ULly dud on the theU J Il U of o th tb leader ler Earl El Spen Spent t rr I r for papers pr regarding ng th th the naval na jl He ITs s said ld d lie he did di not nt desire 1 t condemn the government but he atit ft i an explanation aton of the plans plas 5 I hI the t withdrawal of such suc a 1 1 r number of vessels veel from rose the list cf cc vessels which commissioned 1 fl could be J f I r ao hoe service and tho the reasons reans for forti fot fort ti t j I in reed expenditure since sine 1945 V S justified the vast ji in the te last Jut fifteen n years yer lie Le ie I fail aH the standard WH wat Wa no 50 longer applicable One thing ig had h been beenk 1 k brought out ot by the te Rasso Rss 4 nee war namely difficulties wh w ch arise ars with neutrals and tio tp necessity of o maintaining nn an atti ai attitude tude of oC dignity and ad power thereto VIs c Goschen Goshen said ld id he lie le did di not nt think tre was any ay harm rm In discussing these thee questions Chancellor Von Buelo was rry Iry candid occasionally in remarks T e ith i h regard re to t Con Continuing Contil til Viscount said Rid when atly f power with it twelve battleships was wasi i idy within miles mile of the English toast roast o a th tt that t was wa the te power which must be bp side sid by de with wih prepa preparations to meet any two powers with I rations 3 it inns met ay tw wih hem hm Great Gret Britain Britan might have hoe to daJ cai to the Ule loss los of Russian war Wr warships ships Viscount Goschen said sd it was wa waa question of o ivin or 1 a a Q eton o Rui ders den to great gat establishments outside of Russia Rusia for a renewal of her navy He did not think tink the fact fact that Russia had h lost live ve battleships was a circum circumstance circumstance stance sufficient to t justify the te arrest of or Great Gret shipbuilding pro ro gramme The Te first lord ord of the admiralty the te teEl Earl El of Selbourne said aid Id the increased expenditure was wa due to the fact ft that the whole naVal aspect at of the world east et and west had changed Within the past thirteen years ye new navies had sprung spring sp nS up Russ had recently suffered great reat losses lo but the fleet fet of Japan had come Into existence exIstencE America and Ger Germany Germany I many may had he evolved navies of equal I strength and efficiency while the great French ravy pavy Ia had maintained Its is effi efficiency ef clency Great Britain was wae wa not nt fore forc forcing ing lag the te puce pace ee In shipbuilding but was merely taking taking into account what other oter nations were doing and a two and pos possibly possibly sibly standard must be maintained The British Brish navy nav stood sto between n their manhood and close ad con conscription Cn conscription |