THE NAVAL CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 60, 29 February 1908, Page 3

THE NAVAL CRISIS.

. "Lilies, the iigurc- ~.f tin- espainlmg '■erniiiu uavai bungei i ,an rouse u< oil! o! our heavy lethai'.-v of the la-l l<'« year, we are lallen.' i'mleed. ii«o a -late of J.ilitical and we shall -ink liisensibh ii,u, national death." Nieh Is the jiroiiiMiiiceuieiit ol a leinrak able article in llic .lanuarv Kiirtni"lith IN'view. ,le.-iling u-it i, il„. t .eriiian naval I'l "ui.ll n 1111• anil ij- leei-ption ill lai'iyi'i'l- It calls upon till' Jiritish public i,i " -I'Hi'e no man ann no journal which ! ""'"'s I'linil deieme. of foreign inter-<-»U to the point of .nalieriiiL' with the lac s about our position at \ca." Uliat i- imiiemling f,,r Kngland i-. it ' l ":. l;ln '-. "'"'it or less ihan a liuam-ial light f„ r lif,,. . h - lv ll, ' | t retain "f ll.v sea by facing wirl, "ille.Mlile tenacity and a spi:nl of .lapan- <-<■ sacrifice 11,,. , t ,.,.,„. M ~J Von tl| . )( . u|i nation »> ever called ii| N in i„ „iaKe "" l'" r |'o,e of inaintaiiiiii" the I " i ';; l !!;. , -. v »i,i,.i, is tin- vital I oil i'i oil, ,'\j,( ellce

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