MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5213, 1 March 1904, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Received February 29, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 29. Russia has agreed to the terms of parol'd stipulated for respecting the rescued survivors of tlxe> light at Choniulpho. • February 28. A Russian warship in the Red Sea, north of Porim, stopped and searched .the British steamer Ben Alder, bound for Yokohama. AN OBECT LESSON OF THE WAR. "If you look at the struggle now going on bo 1 * i'oou Russia ami Japan/" said Lord Ranfuily last night at the Navy League m.cling, "it is easy to ’ see the necessity of keeping cur navy up-to-date. Is it not an object lesson to us? Russia, with her enormous resources, seems at a great disadvantage owing to Japan’s successful attack upon her navy. Port Arthur lias apparently lost much of the warlike stores and food intended for her forces, and this must severely affect the present campaign. Russia is a great continental Power, and unlike ns is able tn .c-ow. its own food supplies, while we are a nation with possessions in every continent and innumerable island-—the Mother, land itso f is > n island, dependent on food supplies IP on across the seas, and with the command of the sea gone, might it not bo conquered by starvation without a baitlVH If it were conquered would those fair islands remain independent, ns they now are? Would no nation desire such a splendid prize for the mastery of the Pacific?” His Excellency therefore urged that the navy should bo kept paramount. v