§ 12. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, as the terms of the Washington Agreement would be observed by cutting the guns and destroying the turbines of His Majesty's Ship "King George V," instead of breaking her up, thereby enabling her to continue to perform a useful service as a training ship for seamen, boys and other naval ratings, this course can be considered, in view of the fact that this ship led the line at Jutland?
§ The FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Bridgeman)The hon. and gallant Member appears to be under some misapprehension as to the interpretation of the Washington Treaty, as according to Chapter IT, Part 2, II (a) and (b), a vessel must either be permanently sunk, or else broken up, before she is regarded as scrapped.