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THE NAVY
The Navy is to-day, after taking all losses into consideration, infinitely more powerful than at the commencement of the war. At Glasgow, in September 1916, the First Lord of the Admiralty said:
"So far as my knowledge goes, there is no part of our naval strength in which we have not got at this moment a greater supply, and in some departments an incomparably greater supply, than we had on the 4th of August 1914."
Whatever else may happen in this war, one thing is certain — the supremacy of the seas will not be wrested from Great Britain.
