"ALL-RED" COMMUNICATIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9571, 18 August 1909, Page 4

"ALL-RED" COMMUNICATIONS.

Sir Charles Tupper, late High Commissioner for Canada in London, writes in the "Nineteenth Century and After" on the subject of the unity and defence of the Empire, advocating the much-talked-of "AllRed" route from Great Britain to Canada, and thence to NiW Zealand and Australia. The Imperial Conference of 1907, as he points ouf, committed itself to the establishment of such a line. Sir Charles Tupper urges that "by large steam ship 3 built under Admiralty supervision, commanded by naval officers and manned by trained men, and \ provided with suitable ar/nament, the trade routes could not only be kept open, but the closest communication maintained between ihose parts of *;he Empire concerned The means also of transporting troops and ! volunteers in time of war in the most rapid manner would thus be secured to the Admiralty. Sir Charles Tupper desire? to express his dissent "from the disparaging remarks that have been made in reference to the neglect by Canada to discharge her duty in regard to the defence of the Empire." Cinada has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, lie says, in constructing transcontinental railways of vital importance to the defence of the Empire. And he adduces other pleas of a similar nature.