§ MB. MITCHELL-THOMSON (Lanarkshire, N. W.)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what was the number of battleships building in France and Germany, or sanctioned by the respective Parliaments of those countries, on 30th November, 1905, the date of the issue of the Cawdor Memorandum.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONI am informed that on the date mentioned there were six battleships building in Germany, and eighteen more had been sanctioned by Fleet Bill to be laid down by 1917; and in Prance there were six battleships building and three more sanctioned.