wwapore, Mar. 5.
"The amount of bosh" which is being talked in connexion with the naval conference here is deprecated by Vice-Admiral Sir Allan Everett, the Commander of the China Station, Ingerviewed by a representative of Reuter's Agency, he that the meeting was in accordance with the Admiralty idea that every two years Commanders of adjacent stations should meet to discuss questions affecting them all. They had not met to discuss the naval base any. more than the price of bananas; the only thing was that, supposing the three stations in the Pacific had to act together in a crisis, and he personally did not see one, they had got to arrange about ce-operation, The fact that there were so many ships, he said, was accidental. The presence of the Adelnide was due to her returning from her cruise with the Special Service Squadron. It was the expression of interchange ability, the idea being to give her the opportunity of practising to ordinate exercises in gunnery, torpedo and other things. The ships had collected here because it was the most convenient place for the three squadrons, Te is understood that, at the conclusion of the conference, Rear Admiral Richmond, the Commander fof the East Indies Station,—will proceed to Ceylon and from there fon a cruise in East in which the Cairo
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