CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3186, 11 May 1909, Page 4

CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY.

Public opinion in Canada is steadily showing that that country jss in favour of an energetic naval policy. In a stirring address before the Toronto Empire Club recently, Judge Barron urged that Canada should follow the Australia and protect her own coasts. Judge Barrow said:—"We have so long been accustomed to the glories; of peace that we pursue our avocations day by dcy as if we were immune, a.id forget that in any war in which Great Britain fires a gun an enemy can attack us or any other of England's possessions, and that when such happens the Monroe doctrine cannot be invoked to save us from destruction, as some strangely seem to think. Shall Canada take sanctuary behind Great Britain's guns, or will she prove herself possessed of that nerve, pluck, strength, and greatness on having which at all times she justly prides herself?" The judge strongly advocated the'ereation of a Canadian naval force, contribute so much to Imperial strength. Canada's fleet in time of peace, he said, should be under her own political control. In time of war it would pas 3 under the strategical command of the Admiralty. This could be Canada's aid to the Empire, that Empire which would bng continue to be the strongest guarantee of peace if every one

of its constituent democracies forth with began to realise the widen- obligations of true naval defence.