Conservative member for the Hertford division of Hertfordshire, spoke next.
Great Britain, he declared, wanted airships and more tanks, He considered that the Government was dangerously underestimating the submarine menace, particularly since Germany was building to parity with Great Britain.
The 200 small airships built during the Great War, he went on, had proved an effective means of countering the submarines.
Sir Murray Sueter asked the Government to provide ships for training crews and to expand the construction of airships in the event of war. It had been stated, he continued, that Great Britain had only 600 tanks as compared with France's 4,500 and Ttaly's 11,000.
"If we were going to send an army overseas," he said, "we would want many more tanks."—Reuter, Labour Amendment Lost Reception On the occasion of the birthday of George Washington, Mr. C. E. Gauss, American Consul-General in Shanghai, was host to the American community yesterday afternoon, at cocktail party held at the American Country Club.
Amongst those in the reception line were Admiral and Mrs. H. E. Yarnell, Judge and Mrs, M. J. Helmick, Colonel and Mrs. J. C. Fegan whilst the complete staff of the United States Consulate was present, together with about 450 members of the American community in this city.
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