THE RECENT NAVAL CONFERENCE.
LONDON September 28. The Times referring to the recent conference of Naval Commandants in Melbourne, says if Admiral Pearson had presubd it would have prevented the propagation of evident fallacies. The paper considers that a nondescript form of inadequately trained volunteers ia illusory as a defence and a separate colonial fleet, officered and manned by amateurs, would be expensive in peace and absolutely ineffectual in war.
The Daily Telegraph declares that the Conference evolved a large and well considered scheme.
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Thames Star, Volume xxx, Issue 9451, 29 September 1899, Page 2
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84THE RECENT NAVAL CONFERENCE. Thames Star, Volume xxx, Issue 9451, 29 September 1899, Page 2
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