UNITED STATES NAVY
MELBOURNE, February 26.
Senator Hon. R. W. Best (vice-presi-dent of the Council) stated that Mr Deakin'e invitation to Admiral Evans's fleet to visit Australia was urged as a. further token of the close alliance of interest and sympathies already existing between America and Australia. It might in some degree operate to make a more complete acceptance of the invitation to know that the visit would be received with great gratification ' throughout the Commonwealth.
NEW YORK, February 29.
The United States House of Representatives' Committee on Naval Affairs recommends the construction of two eteel floating drg docks (one in the Atlantic and the other in the Pacific) capable of accommodating 20,000-ton baibtleships ; also the establishment of a naval station with a> graving dock at Pearl Harbour.
Pearl Harbour is an inlet with a. narrow mouth a few miles west of Honolulu, on Oahu Island, in the Sandwich jyroup. The depth of water at the entrance to the harbour is 20ft.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 26
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