NAVAL POLICY.
SOMETHING DEFINITE PROMISED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WE.LJJIXGTOX, Tuesday. Further attempts to draw the Minister of Defence as to naval defence arrangements with the British Admiralty have not proved availing. The situation will not be cleared - up and the way opened for a, pronouncement until an important communication, which is now on its way out from the Admiralty, reaches the Dominion. It is expected in a fortnight. The Hon. James Allen agrees that the former arrangement, under which the I China and East India naval units were to be formed, with a section of the China unit stationed in >7cv/Kealand waters, has not come to pass. As for the future. the only feasible thing, he says, is either an alliance with Australia for naval purposes, which he does not believe in, or a close co-operation,, •which means, to quote his Budget phrase, "for' T nxoerial gurposea Imperial control^
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 204, 27 August 1913, Page 8
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149NAVAL POLICY. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 204, 27 August 1913, Page 8
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