AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE.
-— : —o — : MUST BE PREPARED TO FIGBT, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Perth, November 28. Speaking at .a Parliamentary banquet to the officers of the destroyers. Yarra and Parramatta, the Minister for Defence,' Senator. Pearce, said there were some questions on which they could not agreo to arbitrate. Were • tho peoplo of the Commonwealth prepared to. arbitrate with the Asiatic nations on the question of a White Australia? If not prepared to arbitrate, they must be prepared to light for -it.. Ho believed that' Australians were prepared to accept tho extra taxation necessary to provide for proper defence. Whatever advice Admiral Henderson gave regarding defence tlio Government would act whole-heartedly upon. They had to look further afield than the mere defenco of Australia. They must be prepared to defend the flag, and all it represented.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 5
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