From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12394 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, October 11 2023 Volume 14 : Number 12394 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Is THIS the Fastest Way to Flatten Your Belly? ["Your Belly" Subject: Is THIS the Fastest Way to Flatten Your Belly? Is THIS the Fastest Way to Flatten Your Belly? http://xitoxfootpadsx.shop/tS7zUKds-Sl4zR-Ra2liXX8FjCImeR4nB5haQ0SrVgFu_3w_Ew http://xitoxfootpadsx.shop/e99_nH-ufjJpvcu9jvqF5JWLWjaFlHeOyhZ8_2pAPMjx3Yqm6Q The conference sat in London from April 4 until May 9, 1887 b the year of the Queen's first jubilee. In his opening address Lord Salisbury disavowed any wish to raise at that conference the question of imperial federation. The British Government reiterated its earlier-established position that land defences, generally speaking, were the responsibility of the colony concerned. Nearly half the meetings of the conference were devoted to the subject of naval defence, especially that of the Australian colonies. The British Government postulated a strong navy, free to operate anywhere. In order that the Royal Navy might in practice be ubiquitous, it was essential that certain bases and coaling stations should be provided with shore defences. "In addition to the Imperial fortresses Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Halifax, it would seem necessary to defend on an adequate scale, Cape Town and Simon's Bay, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, Port Louis (Mauritius), Aden, Colombo (Ceylon), Singapore, Hong Kong, Port Royal (Jamaica), Port Castries (St. Lucia), and Esquimalt, in addition to minor coaling stations . . ." The imperial fortresses would remain a responsibility of the United Kingdom; but in the case of certain colonies in which local as well as imperial interests seemed to require that naval bases be maintained, the government of the United Kingdom thought that the cost should be shared, and to this arrangement the governments of Hong Kong, Mauritius, Singapore, and Ceylon, had already agreed. The British Government also announced that arrangements had been made to facilitate the employment of British officers by the various colonial government ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12394 ***********************************************