In the House of Commons on Wednesday Colonel Yate put
a very important question to the Prime Minister :—
" He asked whether, in view of the increasing sea-borne trade of India and the Eastern Crown Colonies, His Majesty's Government would consider the advisability of appointing a Special Committee, composed of naval and military experts, and of representatives of the India and Colonial Offices with recent personal administrative experience in India and the Crown Colonies in question, to deter- mine the respective interests and fair share of these Imperial units in Imperial naval defence, and the best method by which their co-operation in the latter could be effected ; and whether in view of the fact that Imperial naval defence would be a matter of dis- cussion at the coming Imperial Conference, he would appoint such a Committee as soon as possible, so that the result it arrived at could be laid before the Imperial Conference by the Secretary of State for India, who was to represent India at that Conference."
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