COMMAND OF THE SEA.
INCREASED CONTRIBUTION TO ! THE NAVY. Wellington, Saturday. Speaking at the meeting of the Wellington branch of the Liberal and Labor Federation, the Attorney-General (the Hon, Colonel Pitt) said that the Liberals generally did not care much about large
sums being spent on military matters, but they had jhad aa example in what had happened in the present Russo-Japanese war, from which they might take a lesson. ] The military expenditure, he was sure, ] could be reduced, and still fores maintained equal to the necessities of the I colony. That being so, ho thought we j could afford to make an additional grant in favor of the upkeep of the Australasian I squadron, because wo must reoognise that I if New Zealand was to be defended it must I be by the British fleet, aud unless Britain held command of the sea, her supremacy - would be prejudiced as much as Japan’s would have been rf Roshdestvensky had been able to defeat Togo at the last en counter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1478, 12 June 1905, Page 2
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