CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12] — Page 211

why the Colony sh? suffer in consequence

So far as the talle

the table of "soitine potration

is concerned, it is, in my new, the Morgand

for this reason. The question of the liability Coloma's to pay for naval defence Las

Leen mixed from with the Military Contribution. But the Conclusion anived ath tong is sontodied in a deep to the Strait in 1889 (in which the Thasing M40. concured): "Indeling " with the great question of the defence of the 'Empire it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing the cost of Colomal defence except that the mother "Country undertaking the sea-defence of the "Colonies by means the story the Colonia

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