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Squadrons, as well as s1h])s under repair. 

 Crews for these could only he found if men 

 were summoned from rlie reserves hy 

 proclamation. This is a state of affairs 

 which should not be allowed to continue. 

 To neglect reform is to strike at the roots 

 of national security, to imperil the Empire. 

 It is a striking fact that whereas the British 

 Navy has only added 5,000 men to its 

 strength between 1904 and 191 2, Germany 

 has added no fewer than 26,892. Lord 

 Charles Beresford, who has been doing 

 excellent and patriotic work in calling 

 public attention to this question, writes : 

 " The fleet has been seriously short of 

 men since 1904 . . . To-day the fleet is 

 actually short of between 4,000 and 5,000 

 men required to man the ships needed 

 for active service ; and in view of 

 future requirements, it is 20,000 short." 

 Inquirv into the question shows that the 



men do not find it " good enough," and 

 have small inclination to stay in the service. 

 For one who leaves on this account it is 

 probable that ten do not come in. For 

 fifty years the pay of the men has remained 

 practically unaltered, although their work 

 has become steadily more skilled and more 

 arduous. A comparison of the relative in- 

 crease of the wages of similar branches of 

 employment on shore and in the Navy 

 would be as instructive as it would be 

 astounding. But whether this be so or not, 

 surely the nation cannot for a moment 

 stand for a state of things which renders 

 much of our naval supremacy a delusion 

 and a sham. The life of the nation, the 

 existence of the Empire, depends upon the 

 Navy, and are we to allow our safety or 

 future to be imperilled because red tape at 

 the Admiralty or the Treasury declines to 

 recognise that conditions change in fifty 





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