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. .} . ■ ■ : AUSTRALIANS NOT 00IN6 TO SEA. : SHIPS WITHOUT MEN. . ADMIRAL FAWKES'S REFLECTIONS; BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—CIWYRIOHI. .Melbourne, November 11. The retiring Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Squadron, 'Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, responding to the toaßt "The Navy" at*the Lord Mayor's banquet, said it strtnli him as'rather peculiar that people were always talking about battleships, cruisers,, torpedo boats, and submarines, and seemed to' think very little of the crews Vlio .were 10 man them. In futuro lit would,, ho, thought, ;bo better to pay more attention than Australia was doing to the. training of l mom In- the last live years this country might have put thirty-two boys in training-ships of.,tho. I mperial Navy, but had only sent twelve. "Perhaps," concluded the Admiral,'-"parents :do not care to part with "their boys, the expense is too' great,,,or ,perhaps.,the . Australian boys preferred • the land to the sea." j . .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 41, 12 November 1907, Page 5
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