DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
CAPTAIN MAHAN’S VIEWS. By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, July 1. Captain A. T. Mahan, the well-known American writer on naval strategy, has an article in the National Review relating to the colonies and the fleet. He says the prime consideration for the self-governing colonies is that the Channel Squadron should adequately protect Great Britain’s commere and her shores, and that the Mediterranean Squadron should be able to ensure uninterrupted transit of commerce.
What Australia needs is not a petty fraction of an Imperial navy, but the organisation of a naval force to repel danger. Captain Mahan recommends the development of local dockyard facilities and other resources, and says that in respect to essential principles the other colonies should acquiesce with New Zealand that local security usually depends upon the general dispositions which attend on the control of the Pacific generally and on China’s future. The distribution of the nation’s navies indicates this principle.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 460, 3 July 1902, Page 4
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