IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
EMINENT MILITARY OPINIONS.
London, March 17. Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Charles Dilke said the War Office was taking an optimistic view of the dofence question, and it was essential thab experts should be appointed to guide Ministers in dealing with the defence of the country.
General Sh G. T. Chesney, member for Oxford, reminded the House that the Army assumed a place in defence in the event of war and un attack on the country, and he urged that it required re-organising.
Mr H. Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary of State for the War Department, was interviewed by Mr Robert Reid, the Victorian delegate. He informed that gentleman that he approved of federated forces in Australia under one commander. He promised to assisb the Pacific cable scheme.
Asked their opinion regarding the proposed Pacifls cable through British territory, Major-General Sir Redvers Buller and General Sir Evelyn Wood said they considered such a line would be of immense strategic importance in the case of war.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 67, 19 March 1894, Page 3
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