A Momentous Year.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1911, Page 4

A Momentous Year.

A speech by Major Gastrell. M.P., last week, in which he dwelt on the concatenation of events that might lend significance to the year .191 f> as a reason for adopting the policy of an Imperial loan for securing our future naval .strength, has attracted n good deal of attention. Major 6a«trell pointed out that in that year our existing alliance with Japan expires; that the Panama Canal, would be completed; that the Kaiser Wilhclm Canal would be widened so that Dreadnoughts could pass eaeily from the Baltic to tlio North Sea: and that the minor Powers of the Triple Alliance would each have squadrons in the Mediterranean. It may bo added that Mr McKenna on. tlie sa.me day gave 1915 as the outside date at 'which the Government hoped that the 'Rosyth works would he completed.— London Times.