Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-02-08
ENaLAND,s ooALINa STATIONS.
A Complete Chain of Points Around the
Entire World.


Entire World.
A glance at the map is enough to ses <
that England, alone Of the nations, has
an absolutelyunbroken chain of colonies
round the globe, says the philadelphia
Record. Gibraltar and Malta controlh
the greatest Of all trade routes thes
Mediterranean. With England .in
Egypt, Port Said is neutral. Perrin
is, therefore, the first British coaling
station of the second-class on the road
to the East. 1t is. bare rock at tho
southern entrance of the Red Sea.
Then comes Alden, peninsula and
town on the southwest coast Of Arabia
! and east of Bah oil -Mandeb. Singapore
is another great ooaling station. Hong
kong was coded to the British in lSil,3
| 1t is not only great commercial entreI
| pot, but it is the European financial Z
centre of Eastern Asia Albany is ibee
chief seaport of Western Australia!
Labuan, a self-surporting colony od3
! the northwest coast of Borneo, 81
| another important coaling station. n
lies half.w way between Australia andy
China and Australia and Malaysia
Whilst Hongkong and Singapore de-
| PEND on England for their coal supp
plies, Labuan, with North BorneOlq
1 possesses inexhaustible stores Of itse
/ own. Then come Port Kennedy, oil
| Thursday Islands; Brisbane, the capi.d
tai OF Queensland; Lyttleton, the chef'
fort of Canterbury; New Zealand,o
Wellington, and away IN the wilderf'
ness Of the Southern Pacific lie tho,
i Fiji Islands Between them and5
Sydney stretches 1900 miles, and bep
tween them and Vancouver over 5,OCqi
miles. Another naval base, the I'M
portance of which to the British emo
pire has gained through the shifting ofd
the balance of power to the Pacific, ~
Esquimault, at the extremity of lanh
couver Island 1t dominates the wholf|
Of the North Pacific, and is the only
strategical position belonging to Gre'le
Britain on the western side Of lhu
American coast down to the Horn. IA
Lucia is a leading coaling station ~
the West Indies. Continuing our routlt
we come to Trinidad, which island llehi
about 16 miles east of Venezuela rOlIo
of Spain is its capital. Then comt
the Falkland group. They have bee1
English more than once. trencl 8
Spanish, Dutch and Spanish Americslve
Durham is the port and coaling STATE!
of Natal. Besides the 10000 tons NJ
coal annually which constituted Natal ~
, Jubilee gift to the empire, any OF ~.
Majesty's warships can, without cosy
be coaled either within Or without "
bay. 1t was founded in 1894 by Bceiia
who had "trekked'' north to "sra Y
the English government In lSa2 no. y
] ever, Natal was brought under brlli1Ls
Jurisdiction by tho victory OF oapt
! Cloets, and in 1S43 1t was proclain1
. o British colony, tho discontenl9
, Boors again ''trekkingn northWaTeIaI
, The Seychelles" are q dependency, n
Mauritius, from which they are q 4,
, tant 934 miles. NAH is the coaN q
station in tho Seychelles Pianlg
& directly in the Atlantic trade route I'd
st. Helena, an island OF volcapI Z,
: origin, lost Ia waste OF waters !.
9 presents to the sea perpendicular GU Il
I from GOO to 1000 feet high. II sh
: ooaling station of considerable impoI ii
i ance. 1t will thus be seen that neal
b every strategical position OF imporhD
= on ull the great trade routes OF
o world is in the hands oil the briIsl
8 Fifty years ago Great Britain was x
o only power known in Pacific walafs
. Her traders. missionaries, navlgale 10
d and merchants carried all before thels
+ her navy cleared the Eastern. seas Z
4 pirates; she had her choice OF az VI
o fairest islands in Melanesia and MYTH
y nesia. Today the United States % a
Pacific coast line. Hawaii, SYN WI.
in the Carolinas, and Manila ~
/. many and France have enough tefriSw
= and coaling stations in the sou'p
. mako themselves disagreeabIo TO
7 British and Russia is abs0LU7,,
!. Asiatio provinces With faVE
i littornl Y