PACIFIC SEA POWER
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United Press Association—By Etefr trie Telegraph-Copyright.
AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
OVERSEAS DOMINIONS ENDAN-
GERED
(Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, April 5. Mr Archibald R. Colquhoun, M.1.C.E., F.R.G.S., read an interesting paper before the United Service institution on the sea power of the Pacific.
General Sir Edward Chapman, in the course of a discussion of the paper, said that India, Australia, NewZealand and South Africa were endangered through Great Britain failing to adopt a suitable defence scheme in tho Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Lord Charles Beresford declared that the Pacific station should be reinforced immediately. The future was gloomy, because Great Britain was not grappling with problems which might place tho Empire in jeopardy. Admiral Edmond Fremantle said th?y must look to the Pacific for future naval development". It would be a fatal policy to withdraw their ships from distant stations. i
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5
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147PACIFIC SEA POWER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5
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