POWER IN THE PACIFIC.
AN ANGLO-SAXON FLEET. : WHAT OF JAPAN? (By Telegraph.—Press , Melbourne, July 16; Mr. Wynne (formerly a Victorian Minister), in tho course of tho censure debate in tho Federal House, advocated the application of the Monroo doctrino to tho Pacific. He urged that tho United States, Canada, and Australia shonld have a combined floct of thirty vessels to safeguard it. JAPAN EASILY FIRST. The present naval position in tfoo Pacific ia , thug summed up by an Australian writer: "While tho Japanese are easily first in the Paoifip with their 31 big armoured ships, America ifljuefc as easily second with Bomewhero from ■ 13i to 15. Great. Britain is-as easily third, with a squadron of four armoured oruisers in China—a strong Eqnadroa, as far as it goes,. and by far the swiftest in tho Paoifio; and Chili is easily fourth. ■ Germany has one'strong ship.:. The Trance, China,' Pent, Holland, with a fair number of weak ships, are nowhere. 'Euwia and China may licooni?: naval Powers again some day.: For the present Japan haa scotched them both."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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176POWER IN THE PACIFIC. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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