ALL RED SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 7

ALL RED SERVICE.

BUCKSOD BAY. CANADA NOT BOUND AS TO ROUTE. SPEECH BY SIR W. LAURIER, BY TELHGRAPn —FUE69 ASSOCIATION— COrYRISHT. (Rec. June 11, 10.40 p.m.) Ottawa, Juno 11. Sir Wilfrid Lauricr, Proniier of-Canada, replying to a question in tho Canadian Houso of Commons as to whether tho High Commissioner of Canada, Lord Strathcona, was authorised to oppose.tho Blacksod Bay (Ireland) routo for tho All Red scrvico, stated that Canada would unitedly support any routo if tl/o selection were left to tho company undertaking tho service, tho only condition being that tho service should bs between Britain and Canada. AN IRISH ROUTE. Tho route via Blacksod Bay, ou the West Coast of Iroland, involves tho construction of l a railway linking up Blacksod Bay with the Irish railway system. It is claimed that Blacksod Bay and Halifax arc the nearest points of the United Kingdom and Canada, but each of these points, as terminal ports, have certain objectors and critics.- A Home paper fiomo little time ago declared: "Tho statement is made in Montreal that Lord Strathcona has abandoned his advocacy of Halifax as an all-the-year port, and will support the contention of the Canadian Pacific that Quebec is a, proper summer port for the fast steamship lino. The belief is expressed that the Canadian Pacific will adopt Halifax as a winter port and will keep Quebec as a summer port. Tho schunio is said to include tho doubling of the" lino between Quebec and Montreal, with faster trains, and the placing of two or three stoamers of greater ; speed than the Lusitania and Mauretaiiia on, the Atlantic sorvico. In this way it is claimed that tho Canadian Pacific would have an All-Red route'par oxcollonco between' Europe and the Orient."