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Britain's Determination If Hostilities Begin. PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING. (Received 3 p.m.) RUGBY, August '29.British preparations to meet all eventualities proceed quietly and re-lentles.-ly. I liev cover the whole range of active and passive defence. Included among the latter may l>e mentioned the issue of regulations under the Emergency Defence Act reproducing broadly those found valuable in the Great War. Notice has been given of mobilisation of foreign securities, ensuring that they can be retained in British ownership, forming an invaluable financial reserve should the Government have need of large purchases abroad, and also of the temporary closing of the Mediterranean to British merchant ships, and the warning to vessels to leave the Baltic without delay. These and other regulations, of which they are an instalment, crystallise experience pained slowlv and painfullv during 1014-18. Xo murmur of disapproval has been laised at the Government assuming the wide, powers dictated by ccrmmon sen.-e at a time of emergency. They are in line \yith the public determination that hostilities, if once begun, mur-t end in victory.