U.S. FLEET
WAR IN THE PACIFIC.
NOT A LIKELY POSSIBILITY
CONDITIONS AGAINST IT
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 15. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the welcome awaiting the American Fleet in Australia and New Zealand, says: “Britain has been compelled to limit the representation of the Navy' in the Pacific to proportions amounting momentarily almost to evacuation, but a war between the Great Powers concerned in the Pacific is virtually a physical impossibility. A man-of-war has not yet been designed which can steam the enormous distances separating the Pacific nations and then be in condition to fight. A continuance of this state of affairs is assured by the clauses in the Washington Treaty regulating the establishment of new bases. “Even if the physical barriers did not exist, however, what purpose would a war between any of the Pacific States achieve? There is no greater folly than to speak, of an inevitable war in the Pacific.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 May 1925, Page 5
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