Quebec, Sept. 8.
Canada is planning the defence of a strategic island in the mouth of ihe great St. Lawrence River.
Royal Canadian Navy and Air Force officers have just completed a preliminary survey of Anticosti Island from the point of view of defence, and are now going into details of sites for air and naval bases.
All reports on the defence arrangements are confidential and cre being sent direct to the capital Ottawa, where the defence scheme will be mapped out—Reuter.
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