AUSTRALIAN DEFENCES.
i ' • COOK'S MEMORY. ADVICE BY LORD NORTHCOTE. BV TELEGRAPH--rHESS ASSOCIATION—COPI'RIGnT. , Sydney, April 29. Lord Northcoto, , tho; retiring 'GovernorGeneral of Australia, speaking at tho celebration- of tho landing of Captain Cook, said that though it is perfectly certain that tho j Mother Country would discharge to the best of her ability .her. duty of defending Australia, yet it should not bo forgotten that slio was twelve thousand milos away, and may have to fight at any moment in her own defer.ee. Australia, said his Excclloncy, should take' a largo share now ,in her own defence, .Her present immunity could riot be counted on as permanent. • Lot them call in advisers while it wa-s time, and import for pioneers men, who like Cook, and his followers, know hoW to defend tho land they had assisted in creating. THE CONTINENT'S BACK DOOR, SUSPECTED ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A FORT. ■ , Thursday Island, April 29. ■ A box'containing thirty plugs of dynamite, with a partially-burned fuss ■ attached, was ■found under a big gun at tho fort. It is believed that an attempt was mado to blow up tho fort, where a largo number of live shells are stored.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 April 1908, Page 7
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194AUSTRALIAN DEFENCES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 April 1908, Page 7
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