EMPIRE DEFENCE.
POLICING THE PACIFIC.
AUSTRALIA AND N.Z.
INDIA'S NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, September 11. It ie suggested that Australia and New Zealand should provide unites to help in the garrisoning of Hongkong, Singapore and other Pacific points. Very important negotiations, it is understood, have been begun to arrange for dominion military forces to help in policing the Kmpire.
Already in Malta, the Sudan and East Africa there are important volunteer corps administered and trained by regular British officers. The Shanghai volunteer corps has a British commandant and several British units. Canadian units, it in suggested, will look lifter the West Indies and the Bahamas.
The Simon Report on India suggested the feasibility of the Dominions helping to garrison the North-west frontier of India, "the most vulnerable frontier of the Empire."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 14
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