"SEA ASCENDANCY."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 7

"SEA ASCENDANCY."

■': ; ■ HIS EXCELLENCY'S yiEWS^:'/ 1 .; : J^ NAVY QUESTION ■ BECOMING : i IK< >' C & .■/. CREASINGLY.GRAVE. : ::v.;v -" :^ ; % ;' During vNavy, ■ : - : l League Demonsti'atioh , :' at;; the Tiywni ■"' '"■]_, XvS Hall last; evening,; His Excellency ':■. the.; Governor (Lord; Islington) y\l:ih 'on. the'■■NNay;v y; in ita : \ ; ':''■: relation to oversea,,dbniiniohs.•'„Bay- ;■•/;.. ; '■ - ing felicitated ; branch' of league on its ; vigorous,, activity;".his-.vVi/ls Excellency weni _on to ' say '';tnat ;: 'tKe \is Si objects of'tEe league ; were such- that ; '^■.:):"&; it,was only appropriate and .fitting jihat ho should,: in;his official/capacityj; be V; closely identified with: its:'progres3.\Th"a :V ■■;[ league throughout the; Empire -:^ ; -S invaluable service in bringing" home to/. the people the, underlying'principledof'.■■• ; : , British- naval policy, .that upon;: the -\iM strength and efficiency "of, the' Navy de-\Vft ; :P pended 'tlie , welfarp,; hev.crught ;to:isay the .very the:EmpireV >:He' commended, to his hearers,.'as". a. : ;testi- ' : $l '•!•■.• % mony to- the ;niagnificent, influence 'of vS' : '?f' the: British :Navy <bnvEriglish^history/^-Vs s and. the :development' of. the::Empire,' 'X'*s the of-.Admiral-:Manan'e : :bril-i-5-liant arid vivid worlron:"The,lnflueiice"V^ ; ;i': 6f: : Sea Power bni-History." ■,'_-: : K^ : -"<yv;fi:%fliS •V Important enough t^ngh' : blem ; of sea:ascendancy %as; to the' -xpire 100 years; ag6,vc6ntiiined;:his :E3Lcel^ ; ]%:M was; .wmpaiis6n LV ,with;the-.' v 'f. : . if oonditiohs one. ;_lt was.,no;,lpiiger. a.'qriestiotthof A ?S defending .;■ the r ; shores: of ]. the'. 5 :'country&SS'? froini:invasion,/as. in\the; -days 'of .Nzpom^ : w leoi; _ It was: a;'question; of efficiently;^ Vi{~!i guarding the. ways of the :. : 5rU--'. ; ;resisting.■ any; attack;:;which 1 . inight '■ ba;;i :■ *?■';% made upon. any^p^t'^^hin^the^Em-^ pire.'',.lhis. question; creasingly.; grave/in^yieffiiof; the tfacl/:S ; S->i -that : : other ■•'^ations',;-;h^';ettle^('iii ; tHf. ; .-^' s -;-4 race for sea ascendancy;' aM:'pe^:mak-"i;K : , ing\Tart'additidne',.^''tneir^DaTal'annai'- l; -':;!-.t ; . i ;j ments.--> It :couldvn6t:;but;;be 'aeplpredJt;;;Sa! this, such -.a , drain on thefinaiicial Tesbur'ceS of ';?-tK* ■any country,. ;but;;l|4tir/^ome';inteinai : r:fei:.;l •tional.understandiiig^^:Wae\arrive^l;':at-in- ;•■■■::■ •?* such matters,-;it wasVtheyduty':of. th^: : ::l ; »H who were;for the ; moment chargedtwiffii ; the; destiny\ of pire ':'tb - ! ff-& 9, see tha,t the' longed :V and:- , :; Tihclialteigeable; '.:■ .plause.);' ■■'Irrthe*-ediicationVofothe ; Nayy ; :Leaguei: .I"; , ;!:-;! in -no- aggressive V-. ,f S';S it,;obseryed, wa3;doingla;great work,-.li-i'yAs