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its great commercial activity, its large Parsee population, and its being 
the starting point of lines of railway leading to Madras, Bengal, and the 
Punjab, point it out as the most suitable locality for the centralisation of 
our manufacture of war materiel for India. With the exceptions of the 
Gun Carriage Manufactory at Futtehgurh, and the Harness and Saddlery 
Manufactory at Cawnpore, our present manufacturing establishments 
are either on the coast or within easy reach of it; and it may be argued 
that Calcutta and Madras will still require their separate manufactories 
in the view of war occurring in Burmah, or further to the eastward, in 
China or Japan. 
Conclusion . 
We have not, in the preceding pages, attempted to treat the question 
in any financial or economical aspect. The interests at stake are so great 
that we ought to hesitate at no pecuniary sacrifices which should make the 
event of invasion not only improbable but impossible. It is our business 
to profit by what we have seen with our own eyes in other countries, and 
we shall do well if we bear in mind these words:—“Personne ne sait, parce 
qufil est reellement fort difficile de s^en rendre compte, jusqifi ou va le 
gaspillage des homines, des matieres et de Y argent, dans une systeme 
ou les efforts calcules et ponderes de la preparation de la guerre pendant 
la paix sont remplaces par les efforts pleins d'a-coups, et inevitablement 
rinneux de la preparation de la guerre pendant la guerre elle-meme.” 
Staff College, 
Farneorough Station, 
31st March, 1875. 
