SEA POWER IN THE PACIFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 7 April 1911, Page 5

SEA POWER IN THE PACIFIC.

BRITISH COLONIES ENDANGERED

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

LONDON, April 6. Mr Archibald Colquhoun, I'.R.G.S., read an interesting paper at the United Service Institution on sea power in the Pacific

General Edward Chapman, during the discussion, said that India, Australia, ..New Zealand, and South Africa were endangered by Britain's failing to adopt a suitable defence scheme in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Lord Charles Beresford declared the Pacific station should be reinforced im-r mediately. The future was gloomy because Britain was not grappling with problems which might place the Empire in jeopardy.

Admiral Edmund Fremantle said the.y must look to the Pacific for future naval developments. It was a fatal .policy to withdraw ships from distant stations.