FRANCE AND RUSSIA
TO PREVENT NAVAL COALITION. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) PARIS, August 5. M. Poincare has gone to St. Petersburg to seek to extend the military convention of 1892 to the navy, i The journal Des Debats states that France and Russia are socking to prevent a coalition wre£t!"" tho mastery of the seas from Britain. I'nr on that depends the efficiency of "Britain's aid to her Continental al'".Ps i'l. v.nr time.
Tho Vienna Heichpost states that the convention has reference to the Black Sea fleet, and its eventual action in the Eastern Mediterranean. England appears reconciled bv-having other powers established to flank the Suez Canal. If so, Austria must have a naval base in the Aegean Sea.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10687, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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