WHAT IT MEANS.
"We cannot allow Zcebrugge, Ostcnd and Antwerp to become German bases, £ and sources of constant unsettlenicnt, jj writes the naval correspondent of the I Daily Chronicle, It is even more important than it was in former times to keep the Belgian coast free from German control, because of the advent of the submarine and the use to which Germany has put the submarine in. the course of the war. Belgium in German hands for political, military and econo- I mical reasons, would very soon become a country provided with military canals and .railways, which would constitute a permanent menace to our security, and j to the security also of France. Calais could never be safe with the neighbouring coast in unfriendly hands. The Belgian coast is not of great extent, but the miles near, the Straits of Dover are of great strategic importance.' '
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 2
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146WHAT IT MEANS. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 2
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