Efficient and Almost Fool:
-Proof Protection Perfected to Ensure Adequate Guard London, Mar. 16. revelation that the Britis ish Navy had- perfected a device ensuring adequate protection for warships against submarine! attacks was made the House of Commons to-day during the debate on the Navy estimates.
This came in the form of a speech by Mr. Somerset S. de Chair, Cor servative member for the South-'Western division of Norfolk, and the son of Admiral Sir Dudley, de Chair who declared: hope that I am not betraying any secret, but it is a fact that we have an almost fool-pi roof and efficient anti-submarine device operated on a system based on the reflector ray. a submarine comes within torpedo rai inge of a ship equipped with this device, it will be in danger of instant destruction."
He added that, by converti sireraft ship, the Admiralty had of craft capable of developing defence of harbours. ing an old cruiser into an anti-constructed an entirely new type a terrific volume of fire for the Lord Stanley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, had stated earlier: "We have still maintained the superiority over the submarine menace which we secured by the end of the Great War."—Reuter.
London, Mar. 17, 'The Naval. Estimates' for 1036, the last Labour Government, riticlzed the absence of active oF which provide for an increase of. 4613 In the. personnel and amount to £69,090,000, an increase of £9.800,- 000 over last year, were passed by the House of Commons. yesterday following the rejection, by 191 votes to 75, of a Labour motion for reduction In the number of men.
"Th increases includ £408.40 required to make with new. construction 'Z1,105.000 for the Fleet Air Arm: and £3)s00,000 "for" maintenance of the {he fleet against air attacks.
The Estimates were passed following a debate "opened by Lord 'Stanley, Parliamentary. Secretary the Admiralty, who first paid a moving tribute to the tate Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, whose funeral took place yesterday morning at St. Paul's Cathedral. "Another of our great ones. has' passed away," he declared, "leaving the country to mourn a' devoted servant of the Navy and an inspiring leader Adequate -eonsultation with other League members as fo their res-active contributions to collective security.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader and member for Caithness and Sutherland, expressed doubt it Jgreater efficiency and economy the protection of trade routes would not be obtained by the readjustment Of expenditure between sea and" air "The first foundation of the British naval polley was aecoplance of parity With the United States, declared Mr. Winston Churchill," Conservative member for the Epping division of Essex. There could be no idea of naval rivalry between the two countries. "It was " fortunate that the three Powers which maintained regular battle Meets were situated "at Opposite corners of the globe from Which attack upon each other was almost Impossible—Reuter,
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