NAVY FIRST LINE.
Australia's Defence Policy to Be Recast. EMPIRE PARLEY SEQUEL. CANBERRA, August 24. Australia's defence policy is to be recast as the result of the recent Imperial Conference. The Government will concentrate in its new programme upon the Navy as the first line of defence. Other aspects of local defence, such as the expansion of the Air Force and munitions manufacture, both Government and commercial, will take precedence over steps to repulse possible attacks by other countries. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, in a lengthy report on the Imperial Conference, emphasised the need for Australia's co-operation with Britain in naval expansion, visualising the main danger to Australia in a struggle between British and enemy fleets for the control of sea communications.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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