IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
ANOTHER APPEAL BY LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.
United Pnacsh Association —Copyright. (Received November 15, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 15.
Lord Charles Beresford, at the Dolphin Club dinner at Bristol, emphasised the deficiency of ships, men and stores in the navy, the absence of a war reserve of coal, and the absence of a true war division at the Admiralty to direct the training of the fleet for war. He declared that the recent naval manoeuvres were farcical, and that the public had been drugged with falsehood. The business of the navy was always to be ready to meet an attack, and it cannot unless it was continually under training at sea. The two-Power standard had gone, and could only ho recovered with the help of the oversea nations, but they were only beginning, and it would be at least five years before they could contribute to the naval strength of the Empire. Ho concluded by urging every class of society to join together to put an end to the miserable weakness, vacillation, and compromises which were jeopardising our supremacy at sea and, therefore, our life as an Empire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2660, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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189IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2660, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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