§ 7. Sir Ronald Rossasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Return of Fleets, or some other official notification of relative naval strength, will be published this year.
§ Sir R. RossIs the hon. Gentleman aware that Parliament cannot /be held responsible as regards the Navy unless it has some idea of what are the relative strengths of naval forces throughout the world?
Mr. DugdaleI quite agree as to the desirability of that, but the information is not available at the present moment.
§ Sir R. RossSurely, there is some information?