EASTERN DEFENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16326, 23 August 1913, Page 11

EASTERN DEFENCE.

FLEET AND EXPEDITIONARY , FORCE ADVOCATED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Conyright. LONDON, August 21. A Delhi message says that tho “ Civil and Military Gazette ” at Lahore, in a series of articles urges the Indian Ocean dependencies to supply the nucleus of an Eastern defence system consisting of a fleet and an expeditionary force, to co-operato with the dominions to secure naval concentration whore needed, to safeguard the seaborne trade and to supply reinforcements for Egypt and India, besides providing against tho new naval factors that hav 1 © arisen in the Pacific.