THE CAPE STATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 255, 4 November 1910, Page 8

THE CAPE STATION.

IMPORTANCE ASA NAVAL

BASE

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] CAPETOWN, Nov. 3

In tlie presence <oi a. representative .fathering of 2000 people*, including • members of. the Ministry, the Duke <6f Connaught laid the completion- . stone of the new' dock, and pressed a but&n admitting the water. • In the course <?f a speech, the Duke rsaid that while South. Africa'was no longer merely a link-in the chain_ of Imperial commtniiications her importance as a naval base survivea, and the dock was practical recogni--tion thereof. '/