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Page 252
... area being in 1850 only 4,500,000 square miles and the population 130,000,000 ) * but also the liability of the outlying portions of the Empire to attack by land has increased out of all proportion to the actual increase in area .
... area being in 1850 only 4,500,000 square miles and the population 130,000,000 ) * but also the liability of the outlying portions of the Empire to attack by land has increased out of all proportion to the actual increase in area .
Page 253
The liability to oversea attack of the United Kingdom and of our great possessions beyond the seas has increased with the growth of foreign navies , or perhaps it would be more exact to say that this liability would have dangerously ...
The liability to oversea attack of the United Kingdom and of our great possessions beyond the seas has increased with the growth of foreign navies , or perhaps it would be more exact to say that this liability would have dangerously ...
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Such increase of activity , with consequent Japanese necessary precaution , would not only have illustrated further the pros ... their fitness for the work of molesting commerce and transportation would have been distinctly increased .
Such increase of activity , with consequent Japanese necessary precaution , would not only have illustrated further the pros ... their fitness for the work of molesting commerce and transportation would have been distinctly increased .
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