DEFENCE MEASURES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 6

DEFENCE MEASURES

With reference to the objections rai-.'d to the criticism of the do fence situation, lot i :*i -u;ipo-e things po on a* they are. In nineteon• umpty• uinll tho situation in Europe leads to New Zealand being raided and taken by a small and resolute expeditionary for-o. Then murder an<l rape. \ few years after tho ritnation i- impro\ed. and wo again flv the British flair. There would l«o an inquiry. somcone in high authority would he broken, pox-il.'v hung. and under tlie body swinging oti tin* gibbet Would he 'lie follow 'nig lines from Kipling: Our dead s'\Vl rot r.turn to us while 1> . v .'lid Xitrlit divide. | N'r-vci- woj'r i 111 1 >;> of Hiins't hold: Hilt the id ic ->n ind •.1 ovrrlinurs who r|;i:l ■? •• 1 w ni' < - tl'i-v >i<l i Shrill t'lev thrust for hiuh employment s | .„ 1 Tiledr lives i'-.i nnot repay us—their <1 ■- ,t!: eonM I not undo I Tho sh ai)p that thev liav.- laid upon •ur | race: , Hut tho slothnilno s 111 ; t w.i si. d. and tM ! ."11 o',-;ii:i tl .t s'l w j Shall \vi. leave it unai.of.'d in its r' i MK-D I'' •'!' I ■ "