FEDERAL DEFENCE.
PROGRESS OF INVENTION. SCHEME WILL. BE ADAPTED TO NEW , ' DEVELOPMENTS. BT TELEGBiPH—PKES6 ASSOCIATION—COMBIOHTv Melbourne, December 17. With reference to the Commonwealth defence proposals, Mr. Deakin says he considered it unwise to look further ahead than for three years. Naval construction was changing so rapidly that vessels were almost old in three years. Further development of a scheme of coastal protection would bo worked out, and its growth fostered according to the evolutions of time. Tho idea in conncction with cruisers to be borrowed from tho Imporial Navy is that two shall be manned.by the Australian Government and be' under their control, the two others to be manned by Australians, but to be undor the control of the Admiralty. These last will have ou them 400 of the 1000 mon offered to the Admiralty. ' AN obstacle: CONDITION TO CANCELLATION OF AGREEMENT. (Roc. Dec. 17, 10.53 p.m.) London, December 17. "The Times'" Sydney correspondent says tliafc the Admiralty's condition for cancelling tho naval agreement is quite impossible of acceptance.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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169FEDERAL DEFENCE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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