NATIONS IN PACIFIC.
NO LIKELIHOOD OF WAR
LONDON, May 15,
The Daily Telegraph, in comment ng on the welcome awaiting the American Fleet in Australia and New Zealand, says vhat Britain has been compelled to limb; the representation of her navy in the Pacific to proportions amounting roomer, tardy almost to evacuation; but war between the Great Powers concerned in the Pacfic 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 statu of affairs is assured by the clauses in the Washington Treaty regulating the establishment of new bases. “Even if these physical barriers did not exist, however, what purpose would war between any Pacific State achieve ? There is no greater folly than to speak of inevitable war in the Pacific.”—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 16 May 1925, Page 5
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148NATIONS IN PACIFIC. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 16 May 1925, Page 5
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