Toulouse, Feb. 24.
M. Lucien Saint, Senator, Minister Plenipotentiary, and former Resident-General of Tunis and Morocco, died to-day at Chateau Sacere at the'age of 71.—Havas. bably send the whole of their fifteen battleships. The ish force in European waters would serve also, as in the last war, to cover the United States again possible naval aggression from the eastward.
The British and American fleets together would, in fact, be amply strong enough. But have they bases from which they could operate effectively against the Japanese navy?
The recently completed base at Singapore is available for the British fleet.
The Americans are even better off.
The Philippines are unusuall well ided with possible bases. Manila in particular, could accommodate all the fleets in the world and is covered by powerful batteries Courses of Action The most promising courses of action for the two fleets would be either for the American fleet to go to the Philippines and the British to Singapore; or for the British fleet to join the American at the Philippines.
The disadvantage of the former course is that the two fleets would be over a thousand miles apart.
Under the latter course, both fleets would be sharing the same burden and the combined fleet would be so powerful as to be unchallengeable. Singapore and other British and Imperial, FA lans territories to the southward would be covered as effectively from Manila as from further south The great merit of an Anglo-American meeting at Manila would be the very important moral effect that would almost certainly be produced, partly by the junction of the two fleets into one overwhelming force, but even more by this evidence before the whole world of the complete identification of the aims and interests of the two great nations thus acting in close accord.
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