Australian Defences and New GuineaMacmillan, 1887 - 413 páginas |
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Australian Defences and New Guinea: Compiled From the Papers of the Late ... C. Kinloch Cooke Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Adelaide adopted afford Albany appointed armed arrangements artillery attack Auckland Australasian Colonies batteries boats Brisbane Cape Captain Chalmers coast command cruisers depôt drill duty efficiency enemy Engineers entrance established expenditure favourable field force fire floating defences garrison Governor Guinea gun-boats head Hobart Imperial Government importance infantry King George Sound Koapena LAND DEFENCES Launceston Melbourne ment miles military forces natives Naval Brigade naval defences necessary officers opinion paid permanent Perth Peter Scratchley considered Point Nepean Port Chalmers Port Jackson Port Moresby Port Phillip position present proposed protection purpose Queensland question recommended reefs reserve rifle companies rifled guns river scheme of defence shore Sir Peter Scratchley Sir William Jervois South Australia South Channel South Wales squadron steamers submarine mines Sydney Tasmania Thursday Island tion Torpedo Corps torpedo defences torpedo-boats town Victoria village Volunteer force Wellington Western Australia Zealand
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Página 61 - ... that the British Navy will be able to secure and retain the absolute control of the sea. I now propose to allude briefly to my authorities, that their status and the official nature of their views may be incontestable. They commence with Sir William Jervois, who in 1877 considered that the enemy " might, no doubt, despatch one or more cruisers to operate against our maritime commerce or make a descent upon any of our Colonial possessions ; and the Australian Colonies, owing to their wealth and...
Página 165 - In positions such as * referred to, there cannot be any object in substituting an unsteady platform on which the amount of protection that can be afforded is limited by considerations inherent to floating structures, and which is liable to be taken away or to be sunk, for a fixed and perfectly steady platform on shore, which can be fully protected, either against its fire being silenced, or from capture by an enemy. In cases, however, where the distance between forts is so great that...
Página 23 - SIR : I am directed by the secretary of state for war to transmit to you, for the consideration of Earl Kussell, the accompanying AI Bim Ja July copy of a letter which has been received at the Horse Guards icw...
Página 376 - That the members of this Conference pledge themselves to use all legitimate endeavours to procure the efficient fortifications and land defence of the several ports of the Australian Colonies, at the cost of the several Colonies interested.
Página 266 - ... the 6th parallel of south latitude cuts the 144th degree of east longitude, and continuing in a west-north-westerly direction to the point of intersection of the 5th parallel of south latitude and of the 141st degree of east longitude. The British possessions lie to the south of the line thus defined, the German to the north.
Página 269 - ... Victoria and Queensland had jointly guaranteed the payment of the entire sum. The decision of the British Government as to the extent of the Protectorate in New Guinea declared (October 8) it to extend, " for the present," along the southern shore of New Guinea, and over the country adjacent thereto, from the 141st meridian of east longitude, eastward as far as East Cape, including any islands adjacent to the mainland in Goschen Strait, and to the southward of the said Straits as far south and...
Página 27 - I am, therefore, to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Secretary of State for War concurs with Mr.