FEDERAL POLITICS.
Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. (Continued from page 2.) MELBOURNE, yesterday, Mr Deakin, speaking in reply to Mi* Fisher, contended that the offer of a Dreadnought was tendered as a pledge of loyalty, not for display. The offer might cover anything else that would bo equivalent. The Government was anxious that the real offer should go unsullied by any meaner motive. Mr Haldane, in his recent speech, stated that a^great crisis existed, arid that it was imperative to deal •with. it. An hon. member : Lord Beresford liad said that Aiis-fcralia's gif t ooaild , best bo utilised in Australian waters. ' Mr Deakin : If that view was accepted by the- Admiralty it could' be given effect to. The matter could be discussed at the Defence Conference.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 302, 25 June 1909, Page 5
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