FUTURE OF MALTA.
ABANDONMENT PROPOBAL. OPPOSED BY LORD STRICKLAND. THE THREAT OF WAR. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Oct. 28, 8.40 a.m.) MALTA, Oct. 27. In condemning the Nelsonian School of Thought in England, which advooated the' abandonment of Malta and the of the Mediterranean Sea by means of bases at the entrance, Lord Strickland told the Senate that Lord Fisher’s intervention had prevented the abandonment of the Island. If the British loft Malta it would be occupied by France, under threat of war. The possibility of war in the near future, continued Lord Strickland, was indicated by the flow of capital Into English banks and the masses of bullion in the Bank of France.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 7
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