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We have pointed out elsewhere what, in our opinion, is

needful to be done, but may compress it here into eight lines: Use at once all available resources for construction, and make such preparations for further construction that next year we may be able to double or treble our programme should that be necessary. Further, make such careful preparation for guns, gun-mountings, armour-plating, engines, and naval material of all sorts that, should it be necessary, the time now considered the minimum for building a capital battleship may be greatly reduced.

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