TALK OF INVASION.
DESCRIBED AS RIDICULOUS. By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.! WELLINGTON, this day. Appealing for more realistic thinking about the problem* of defence, Mr. W. J. Lyon (Government, Waitemata) said in the Address-in-Replv debate in the House of Representatives last night that to talk of an invasion of New Zealand was ridiculous. It would take a force of at least 2.">0.000 men to attack this country successfully. : An attr.ck on such a scale, he said, I could not be accomplished unless the liostil" nat'on had complete control of the Pacific, and if any hostile nation had that control it would be completely impossible for Xew Zealand to defend : itself as an individual nation. Those I people who talked of an invasion of Xew I Zealand should realise that Xew ZeaI land would first have to be completely cut off from the rest of the world. 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 12
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