PACIFIC TERRITORIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9188, 7 September 1906, Page 5

PACIFIC TERRITORIES.

— — -■■,* THEIR COMMERCIAL AND STRATE-GIC-IMPORTANCE. .(Received September 7, 7.36 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. The Times devoteataMßpecial and leading article to the vast territories of the Pacdic from commercial and strategic standpoints. It mentions that the Friendly . groups in a straight line between Sydney and Colon are destined, after the opening of the canal, to attain importance similar to that of Singapore. It warns Britain of tie danger of supineness, and empha-. sises the growing activities of Australia'? foreign neighbors. It remarks that Germany is guided in the acquisition of important naval stations by a definite plan "' of action towards the ultimate co-ordina-tion with the Dutch poaeaaions should Holland enter into poMtioal communication mth Germany,