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thingh the Mediterraneaufort is generally therefore is in longer politio ; it la'a dando PORTLAND 2.00 miles distant from there shores it 10 of life. To relinquish the MediterraneanI NOFVITIE fncomparably the most important of all our the coeptance of defeat on the field where Sus eqtsons Where the enemy is strong thera Power has been made and lost for three thous Mr. Arnold White writes in the Naval and should be strong. Naval strength in British and years. The affaiency of the Mediterranean Military Record:
home ports or in North Ameriosu waters is feet, therefore, is the base of the pyramid on The British Empire depends upon the effl-elon because mobilisation and reinforcement which the British Empire resta. ciency of the Mediterranean fleet, upon the may be too late. The China squadron is futile, possession of Malta and Gibraltar as efforting because the battle for "Chins will not be refreshment to the fleet, and upon the readiness out in the Far East, but in the Mediterranean. fought of Great Britain to join battle with her enemies had nowhere else. If we guarral with France on the sen whenever and wherever they may fight will not be in Australian waters, but in about her criminals in Noumes, the decisive of empire are phases of the same thing the The conntrius berdering the Mediterranean choose to make a stand. The three condition the Mediterranean. It always has been so, supremacy of the fleet. There is a certain school. New PLAN OF HONGKÉW (SHANGHAI) with ¦ M politicians however, who are in favour of I have been the cradle of civilisation. Phoenio, } is not a large one. but its urgaments deserve
the Mediterranesa. The school is Gee, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, the
Frenon
end the British have been succesively attention. The evacuation of the Mediterra protectors of knowledge and progress, and at es means three things. It means, first, that present time the Mediterranean Sea is stil England begins a naval war by running away, the most important waterway of the world. un event that has not happened sines Jervis Trade with Mediterranean ports along is withdrew in 1776, and one that exaunt fail
£95,00,000 to operate untowardly apon the prestige of Egypt obliges us to hold on as our fathers held Puscasion of the British caIBRO" MINČ the fartene
on
of
our position there. war in which the rase might be engaged.
Another point upon which the public should The recond result of the evacuation of kept informed is the immense advantage the Mediterranean would be the abandon posed by the French of mobilising quietly ment of Egypt, Malta and Cyprus, Aud, without the knowledge of the British. We thirdly, the acrifice of Italy and of any
Cannot strengthen our Mediterranean Rest friends that may reamain to us in Catalunis without the news of and in the Balonaic Islands would be an
every ship thither being telegraphed to every obnaceller advertissmont to the world that
from
in Europe. The Tonlon feet, on the other THE the Straits of Babel tandeb to the Pillars of hand, can be silently and secretly brought up to Hercales England led hauled down her fag.
war strength at any moment, Crews can b To begin a war with any wash signof weaknes placed on board without attracting any aften- and fear as the evenation of the Mediterranean Lion or without the knowledge of any foreigner. would be to fil.our enemies with joy and our
The crew of even one of our own ships saunot own people with diamay. The sirocates of the
be sent to Malta and 'Gibraltar with the wident plan urra that the retention of a fleet in the pubisity. Mediterraneau is a relic of the days when we were a European Power instead of an empire, world-wide it is true, but standing outside the sea power. For more than two thousand years alliances of the Continent as at present. They it has either been occupied by the Power holding bold that our garrisons and our fleet in the the command of the seas or by the Knights of Mediteranean serve to-day no more useful
S. John ander the licence of that Power. purpose then to keep green the memory of Thirteen times it has changed bands. The Nelson; and tempt the French to build an in earliest inhabitants of which we have any astaal pregnable fortress at Bizerta: They are the Phoenicians, Then came the What bearing has the mastery of the Medi.. Greeks, Malta slissing the varying fortunes termapen on the possessing of Australia, that followed the wars in Sicily which took place Canada, or the Cape? We have no longer the as the Grask drove out the Pharisian. Later atake which we used to hold in the East, the Carthaginiaus drove out the Greek and tried Disraeli dreamed of a sort of informal British to regain the ancient possession of the mother protectorate over Turkey. That dream is loud. Then came the conqueror, Rome, when, over for good or for it. We shall never again during the first Punic War, the Car Japan-Shimonoseki, 1895; Liaotang Con-put our money-sa the wrong horse, a thaginians held Malta, ca Livy tolla un
vention, 1895; Commercial, 1896; Now Ports, did in the early fifties."
(XXI bl), until Hamilear gave it up to 1890.
Titus Sempronius. In due time Malja becaine a France? It is doubtful. The orifloe faith. In the great struggle of Christendom
Would the abandonment of Egypt conciliate bishopric and for many hundred years was ALWAYS FRESH AND RELIABLE AT THEIR AGENTS
noted ara harbour and a haven of the Christian Cyprus might presumably please the Sultan, against the Moslem the Saracens gained portes- white in the loss of Malta we should have parted sion of Malta after a struggle of many years. with the symbol of ses power. In considering Thrico they invaded it and held the island until the question of ecounting the Mediterranean the Norman kuights brought their we must never forget that the policy has in its armes to the Mediterrauens. For the first time corquering lines in the Mediterranean falls to Franer, not Molie. The present German Emperor's know- favour the fact that the advantage of interiors Teutonic race and influence were brought to to Britain, and that the loss of Minores be ledge of history and his taste for ses power Great Britain has been a more considerable lease him under no illusions as to the value of factor on the side of France than the patrioth the vital spot in the Mediterranean which was writers of this generation are wont to admit. It is supposed by some of the apologists of
ones held by the emperors of the Holy Roman vacuation that we should be permitted by the air. For nearly 250 years the Spanish delighted Continental Powers to seal up the Malta. The last King of the Spanish House, House, through 14 kings of Aragon, ruled over
and that after having realed the western mouth John of Jerusalem. In June, 1793, Bonaparte ontlet of the Mediterranean at Gibraltar by the Emperor Charles V, granted Malts as a establishing ourselves on the coast of Morocco, noble and free fief to the knights of 8. of the Mediterranean we should repeat the seized Malla on his way to Egypt. In a few process of the southern aperture of the Red hours the French were in possession of Bes
town of Valetta and one little pert. Boas New the whole of Gozo and Malta except the parte stryed six days laying down laws and innumerable churches of their silver and their regalations with a strong hand, and plandering pictures. Sir Alexander Ball succeeded in on any such course as that. What is required wreating the island from Bousparte, and it objections. Let us recapitalate these objectionsMinistry has been blamed for giving the Maltese in to take the course that is open to the fewest might be noted in passing that while the British 1. The evacuation of the Mediterranean would lawyers and shop-keepers 15 years notice before onusolidate Continental Anglophobia. After English comes the language of Wa'ta, Nage being bauyed up for nearly two decades by the leau dealt with the langage question in the promise of English help, a polley of seattle following sentence-To-morrow at two would inflame the Italian people against oz o'clock the language of France will be the len We should thus lose casts and credit, and wo should, therefore, consolidate the Latin races 1802 restored Malts to the order of S. John guage of Malta. The Treaty of Amiens in. against the Power that timorously renounced of Jerusalem. This plan was intensely repug- the control of the Latin lake, France would meat to the Maltess, who protested against it require compensations," and it in highly im- by despatching a deputation to England. The probable that the Sultan would forget the sneer favelled at him by the Prime Minister becauea broke out again, and the island remained in the plsa was Dever carried out War gnickly main objection to the Evacuation of the secured to her by the Treaty of Paris, article of the joy of recovering Cyprus. But 4) the hands of England until 1814, when, it was Mediterranean lies in the fact that the heridi-nuder which the British people still hold the tary, historical, and unalterable policy of Britain vital spot of the empire. forced upon her by the nature of things is to £ght for fes s power whenever and wherever so puser may he challenged. To do otherwise is to sacrifice the empire to the fleet. Let us remember that the navy was made for the empire, not the empire for the navy,
Russia-St. Petersburg. 1981; Russian Land Trade, 1881 Port Arthur and Tallenwan Agreement, 1688. Portagul, 1888.
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we could not retain Malta; but if we were The enemy will strike where he is strong and obliged to give it up, he did not know in what
which the Chinese have of late years, been ove where we are weak, not where we are strong tioned in this treaty." Mr. Fox, on this occassion, anest Barley Malt only, sud warranted not to selenos generally, which the rapid advance of pelled to coin to express the numerous objects is bands it could better be placed than those men
This Beer is brewed of best Baarer Hops and machinery, photograhy, telegraphy, and and he is weak. If this be true the blow will was in agreement with the Prime Minister, and contain Chemicals in any form.- Denkyards, and coal supply are at hand, but in said: "Although he admitted the importance. fall mat sire age insures its fiue condition in any fully illustrated and explained, forming exercise foreign relations has imposed upon them, are The Beer is sterilised after being bottled, and here given in retenen. Bach and every word is the Mediterranead, where the French and of Malts, and regretted the necessity Russions are strong and where we are weak. We it up, yet he could not, Batter himself that we climate. Beautifully bright, seductively spark for students of a most instructive nature. Bots
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sl ud. Ju the sy-ut of the defeat of England UINART PELE & Fits, LEINS It will be intensely interesting to know which THE RESULT OF THE FIRST ENCOUNTER.
of the Allies is to occupy Malia, Three of the The capacity of the British Mediterranean bn-gry eyes. The policy of Bussis, like the Great Powers still look towards Maits with quadron to fight a second engagement with the policy of Home, changes not, The Peace of Kussian partner of the French alliance must Amie as came to an end over the quarrel st to taken into serious consideration. It would Me ts, and began a war that only ended at require not merely lack but a miracle to enable Waterlon. When Great Britain was Bghting Admiral Denvile to escape destruction in a for her life she know the value of Malta. To ssccnd battis. On the other hand, if he waits day she seems to think that Malls is secured to for his reinforcements, and picks them up at her by, the decree of
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