"RULED OUT."
AUSTRALIAN COMMENT ON Till] SPEECH.
(Received Friday, at 10.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, Friday
. The Herald, commenting on Mr Churchill's speech, declares that tho Admiralty believes that a strong squadron, with its base at Gibraltar, is sufficient to protect the Pacific. "W3 must be'pardoned for ruling that squadron out of existence as far as the Padfic. is concerned" says the Herald. "A dozen British battleships could not be suddenly withdrawn from the Home ivaters. When the day comes on which a, British fleet must again be establish.;,! iii the Pacific it Avill be established on condition only that a substantial portion oi" the fleet—ships, basis, personnel and organisation—already exists on the spot. That is the object towards which .New Zealand and Australia, ire A',orking, and they Avant help to thrush out a common plan for the future defence of the Pacific."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11932, 20 March 1914, Page 5
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