Canada's attitude toward naval defence has long been an irritating factor to other Dominions. Austra-lions have protested that while they, with their smaller population and slightly smaller natural wealth, have built a fleet to help in empire defence, Canada has been content with a few destroyers and other odd units.
Naval experts in London, however. point out that naval expansion by Canada was not particularly desired as long as the restrictive quantitative naval treaties were in existence.
These specified a total naval tonnage for the British Empire, and it is felt in London that such tonnage could usually be better employed for developing the Royal Navy.
Now that these restrictive treaties have' gone by the board, the British government would be glad to see any or every Dominion develop fleet of its own.—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.