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Show A British Base at Trinidad A British sKop is said to be taking soundings off the ccast of Trinidad and tire thought is expressed ex-pressed that the British are plann-ir plann-ir to establish a naval base. I 've very idea will send suspicion t ngling up and down the spines of t!ie members of the anti-British associatiens in this country and we will probably hear mere about this nefarious enterprise in time. Trinidad, just off the coast cf Venezuela, possesses a great asphalt lake and its larger neighbor has in-exhaustable in-exhaustable supplies of oil. The British, it :'s said, would like to be in position to control the sea lanes to both places in order to assure I adequate petroleum for the beet. Personally, we can't get up much steam abcut the report. If the ; British ' fleet needs oil, and must ' have it from Venezuela, v.e can ' imagine no reason in the world why the people of this coir.U.y would object to the Britisn getting pet'oleum products from. Ve; e-1 e-1 zutla |
