IMPERIAL DEFENCE-
COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING. DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. UMTicn Press Association—Copyright (Received July 13, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, July. 13. In the House of Lords, the Bishops of Exeter and Bath supported Lord Roberts’ Compulsory Training Bill. Lord Lucas defended the present system. The debate was adjourned.
A CANADIAN NAVY.
A SCHEME SAID TO BE PREPARED
(Received July 13, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 13
A contributed article in the “Pall Mall Gazette” states that Air. Brodeur, the Canadian delegate, will bring to the Defence Conference a. settled scheme f A a Canadian navy, consisting of five /ffst-class cruisers, ten destroyers, and ten torpedo vessels. Till Canada possesses dockyards and arsenals the necessary orders will he placed in England. The article adds that Canada is .opposed to contributing a Dreadnought .or contributing money, because she is suspicious that under a Radical-Socialist British Government such contributions will be no real increase to the naval -strength of the Empire.!
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2553, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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