At a time like the present, when thre are so many people both inside and outside of Britain, accusing the Government of rabid imperialism and of using the navy as a weapon of intimidation for the more pri peoples of the worl, it is interesting to read ecriain remarks made by Commander} 'A. Maraden, M., at a public meet ing in England recently concerning' the loss of the Valerian. The sloop Valerian, it will be remem-ered, sank with great loss of life in a hurricane off the Bermu: According to Commander Marsden the loss of the Valerian was indirectly due to the economies. im posed upon His Majesty's navy singe the war. The vessel.was built in the stress of war and along, certain lines. Basically she was a "weak". vessel, which in times of] poate would never have been turned after leaving Weihai 12,000 miles had good weather. On 'Trafalgar Day, when within a very hart distance of the spot where the famous battle was fought, a wind-burst carried away her topmast, a stout spar weighing a ton and a half. Was it not at the mainmast-head that' the Victory hoisted the great signal?
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