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Show NAVAL EXPENDITURE CRITICISED IN HOUSE Special Cable to The Tribune, LONDON, Sppt. 2. The qnentlon of wasteful expenditure by t he Kovernment was raised by Colonel Wilfred Ashley In the bouse of "commons when ho cited as an Instance the story of the enormous Cunard liner AquilaniH. TIiIh vessel was requisitioned and transformed from a liner to an armed merchant cruiser, restored re-stored to the owners and fitted hh a pns-senger pns-senger ship, became a transport, a hospital, hospi-tal, was laid up for about three months at a cost of $2000 a day and finally r'-transferred r'-transferred fo the owners, all within tho bpa'e of about nine months. Tho colonel said the Mm tret an la., a riot ri-ot her Cunard oiran greyhound, had rnsl tho Mate. bet ach $::.00n,Ofr0 and 500,000 for a similar course of irHnsfornia-tions. irHnsfornia-tions. and a like story attached to tha White Star liner Britannic. Dr. Macna ma ra, psrlla nienta ry secretary secre-tary to the ad mini 11 y, said In; was pre-pured pre-pured to Justify Ihc mcnsurM taken by the admiralty, at tho rluht lime. |