FIFTY YEARS AGO
DEFENCE PRINCIPLES CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Conceptions and principles of defence have changed enormously in half a cen turv. Following is an item dealing mtn the subject that "apiieared m , V__ Zealand Hkrald of August 0, looo: ''The Canadian Pacific destined to revolutionise the cxU"j means of transport and coniniui iia.t-wi throughout the whole ot the I at fie means thereof Britain could in • a . war place herself in direct coiniiiunn: tion with all her remote depei denues without the risk of interruption. sa e on the high seas, where slie enin al«*>» command her way. I lie l-ngli.' t j 0 ment has decided, in concert with*™ Canadian Government, to tor Ksquimalt, a port in the soutliern of Vancouver Island, possessuu, con . facilities and requisites foi o® 11 )- stituted a first-class naval rt "This is meant to be a couhtcrj) to the Russian naval depot at Vladivostock and will seru eft ally to hold in check any hostilt against Australasia which'the cruisers might resolve on in t war."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22490, 6 August 1936, Page 8
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171FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22490, 6 August 1936, Page 8
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