London vid Bombay, March 11.
Daring the debate on the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons Mr. A. J. Balfour blamed the Government for not having pushed on the works at Rosyth (the new naval base in the North Sea). He argod the construction of ships on the largest scale in view of the German naval programme.
Mr. Edmund Robertson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said that in 1910 Great Britain would have nine Dreadnoughts and three Invincibles compared with Germany's four Dreadnoughts and
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