London, Nov. 22.
Telegrams from Ottawa state that Mr. RB. L. Borden, the Premier, welcomed Sir Wilfrid Laurier's amendment to the address: in reply to the speech from the Torone, as a test of the unity of the Government on the question of i the navy. He said that Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Government had proposed an expenditure of $50,- 000,000, spread over a decade, and planned a fleet which would be pieless as a fighting force as it would be obsolete by the time that it was completed.
He intimated that the Government would not proceed with such expenditure, ani said that the whole question must be reconsidered. The Government would take pains to ascertain the condi tions confronting the Empire so that they might be prepared to do their daty as citizens of Canada and of the British Empire—Renter.
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