Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1914-02-28
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review. Vol. XII, No. 1-Twelfth Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, Feb. 28, 1914 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year Naval Defence "No policy will be satisfactory to the people of British Columbia' which does not include a substantial and prompt contribution and the ESTABLISHMENT OF A FLEET UNIT ON THE PACIFIC COAST." 0 Spiked Guns FOU flic first times in the history of the British Empire England's guns are spiked. A British suhject hns heen killed. maybe murdered, by n revolutionary desperado in Mexico and if '.lie claims of the United States under the Monroe Doctrine are imceilcil, England is powerless to act. Such a position is almost inconceivable. The Mistress of the Seas may not pursue her traditional policy, may not land her marines, may not train hoi guns and may not demand that instant satisfaction which has been her wont, nnd which has inspired such.confidence in the reality of British pro- lion, and all because of a figment known as the Monroe Do'lrme. Instead, she must chafe and bide her time; she must ask the United Slates in do what it is her own right to do, and not that of another, mid if if is not dune, what then ? Quien sabe \ Canadian Northern Guarantees S Monday last Premier McBride brought down a Bill which proposes to increase the Government guarantee on the construction of thc Canadian Northern lines in British Colum- )ia from $35,000 to $45,000 per mile. The measure is not a popular mo for reasons which will he explained. It met with opposition in wo quarters, from fhe liberal press, as was natural, because they lad to oppose it, from a few Conservatives, because they had not inns- ered and did not understand all the bearings of the case. As it tnnds today there is general acquiescence in the wisdom of the Government policy, not unmixed with an equally general regret that t should have been necessary. The regret is occasioned by the fact hat when tlie Canadian Northern policy was hrst introduced and lassed on to the S…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373771
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text