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John Morley: “These hostile cruisers would haunt Australasian waters (coaling in the neutral ports about the Eastern Archipelago), and…”

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These hostile cruisers would haunt Australasian waters (coaling in the neutral ports about the Eastern Archipelago), and there would be scares, risks, uncertainties, that would derange trade, chill enterprise, and frighten banks.
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John Morley

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He warns that the presence of hostile cruisers in Australasian waters would disrupt trade and create economic uncertainties.

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