Future of Navies

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Government to be bustled into precipitate action which may prove to be fatally mistaken. But there is every reason why they should, without delay, take steps, in the way that we have sug gested, to probe the question far more deeply than, to judge from all the available evidence, they have so far thought of doing. For the life of the country is at stake.