THE ALL-RED ROUTE.
'A MATTER OK HKiU STATE I"OUCY." DECLARATION' BY A BRITISH MINISTER. Received June i'j. j, ,„_ London, June 2:i. Leplymg to an IrMi deputation favoring Blacksod Bay a, a port of departure for the All-Red route to Halifax, Mr. Winston C'hnrehill, Secretary of the Board of Trade, admitted that the Iris'i route had much that was attractive, but he referred to the neeessitv of instructing 100 miles of new railway, besides improving the old lines, to permit of a speed of 50 miles an hour. The Government had not departed from their general attitude at the Coloni.il Conference. He admitted that the AllKed route could not wholly be defended on commercial grounds. It was a matter of high State policy in which sentiment was a factor not less important that commercial considerations. The claims of Ireland from a point of sentiment were great. Indeed, Ireland would be the last link in the chain of free | communities joined by lines of rapid modern transit to the heart 0 f the Km■iM.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 157, 24 June 1908, Page 3
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172THE ALL-RED ROUTE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 157, 24 June 1908, Page 3
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