Show I i Canadian Defenses on the 1aciSc Coast I Special to TiE IIcis UD Examiner Dispatch I OTTWVA July 15The Canadian government c govern-ment has forwarded its reply to the important e j J import-ant dispatch received last month relative to yilio proposed defenses on the Pacific coast i Three or four months agoit was announced I n the house of lords that the Dominion government has consented to maintain one hundred men of the Royal Marines artier at Esquimault Brit u sh Columbia The statement was s premature A dispatch requesting 4b tha Canadian authorities to do this has 5 been forwarded to Ott owa and the reply i just sent embodies the views of the government govern-ment on the matter LI Tho request to maintain this imperial l force at Esquimault is respectfully declined 1 de-clined the Canadian authorities proposing I 1 iu lieu thereof to build earthworks on the straits of San Juan de Fern at a cost of I 75000 to maintain a battery of artillery at t Victoria acd to keep an effective militia force in British Columbia In return the imperial authorities are asked supply tho S aiiaamentfor fortifications and to maintain y main-tain a force of royal marines to handle tho fans The around is taken that tho im erial interests are as imoortant on the Pacific coast as those of Canada and its I it-s therefore held but fair that the expense I thould be equally divided |