ADMIRAL EVANS' FLEET.
VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. A GUARANTEE OP PEACE. Received March 16, 9.11 a.m. TOKIO, March 15. When the visit to Australia by the United States fleet was announced, an official at the Foreign Office in Tokio stated that the decision to send the American fleet on a tour of the world would silence all talk of war, and be a guarantee of peace. MR DEAKIN'S PREDICTION. Received March 16. 10.55 a.m. SYDNEY, March 16. The Federal Prime Mini&ter (Mr Deakin), at the conclusion of a speech on national defence, said the American fleet would receive a welcome such as had never been seen outside the United States. AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE IN THE PACIFIC. MELBOURNE, March 16. The Minister for Defence said that the visit of the American fleet would prove most gratifying to Australia, adding—"We feel our future in the Pacific is'. bound up in that of America." INVITATION TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND, March 16. In a communication to the "New Zealand Herald," to night, Sir Joseph Ward says: "I have made representations through His Excellency the Governor, and also the American Consul-General, inviting the American fleet to visit New Zealand."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5
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193ADMIRAL EVANS' FLEET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5
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