Paris, Nov. 10.
The Chamber of Deputies to-day passed the Budget for the devastate The Minister of Public Works said that ninety-eight per cent. the fields which had been destroyed. in the Great War had been repaired. Sixty-eight per cent, of the estates, eighty-seven of the works, seventy-six of the public buildings, eighty-four of the roads and ninety-nine per cent, of the canals had been The Dominion of Canada will b some day a greater influence in the world than Great Britain, said Mr.
Reginald MeKenna, former First] Lord of the Admiralty and Chancel-Exchequer of Great]
in_an address at the Canadian Club to-day.
Speaking of the Naval policy Great Britain, Mr. McKenna sai "Any lover of peace, any determined economist—and Tam both—cannot but wish for the success of the League of Nations in armament reductions, But the sea is our great highway and we must keep it open at all times and at all British naval policy now as_before the War, Mr. MeKenna-defined as aiming to' provide the minimum number of ships required to keep the sea highways of commerce open, the size of the ships to be kept down to the smallest limit com-
"In making our calculations wel never consider the possibility of] war with the United States," he; should be borne in ring the breakdown lof the recent Naval Conferenc MAJGEN. WOOD ON THE,
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