IF AN ENEMY CAME.
TASMANIA MIGHT SUFFER FIRST. HOB ART, October 16. An unpleasant picture of Tasmania isolated from the rest of Australia by the operations of an enemy in wartime was painted by Brigadier-General C. H. Jess, State Commandant, in a lecture delivered to members of the Royal Society. General Jess stated that in the matter of defence Tasmania bore the same relation to the rest of Australia as Australia did to the Empire, because there was a possibility that the enemy would select Tasmania first of all for an attack on Australia. Tasmanian defence was a question of land defence with the assistance of the navy and the air force. There were many small bays and harbours around the coast where enemy submarines could shelter, and they could interfere very seriously with shipping, not only between Tasmania and the mainland, but with that between Australia and Great Britain.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 9
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150IF AN ENEMY CAME. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 9
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