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-:ve generations of sua officers to call our an. These are noble words which should sink into the minds of all men of Bruish d. They indicate the only way by which the Empire can be held preste, The route to Egypt, to Indis, to China, to Australin, to many possessions and parts of the Empire cannot be jeopardised by re- versing the policy upon which the Empire has been built up. We cannot belisee that any ses officer, knowing the principles of strategy and feeling the weight of res ponsibility, can approva such a change. Nelson, from his own quarter-deck, and from that vary ses, warned his country agsinst the futility of depending upon any
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renumed the Fourth Battle Squadron, from its baso at Malta to Gibraltar, and its | redaction to a strength of four battleships olya number, he said, to be raised ultimately, “and if necesary," to a strenth of eight ships. The reasons for this with- drawal are well known. It is the German menace in the North Sea which, like, a magnet is attracting our forces towards But those waters.
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Lind us to the fact that there are dangers vid possible enemies eleswhere. It is said that a bitle squadron, based on Gibraltar can strike both cast and west, but it canaet rike in both directions at the same time. and the only reasonable enurse to adopt is to provide a sufficiency of force for the South Sen and the Chonnel, and if the Fourth Squadron is based on Gibraltar, to anse aderate force for the Mediterranean Lisa,
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will complete its strength. We declinë to baliare that the Admiralty Board will ive aby saneliou to the abandonment of the Mediterranean, but they must be provided with adequate means for the proper caintenance of our position in those waters. With the, present balance of strength, and eight modern battleships at Gibraltar, if a strong squadron of our P must powerful-ar.noured cruisera w re ased on Malta, the position would b antisfactory, pending the larger' British | naval expansion, which is inevitab'o). The duty of the Governuïent is clear and leanite. In view of recent developments both in the North Sea and the Meditor- ranean there' urgent Decority to strengthen our battle Boots, so that tho Country may be unquestionably superior to its possible adversary in Home waters, and able, at the same time, to safeguard British the Mediterranean, and ad- intereste ixa equately to protect the route to India and the East
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