COLONIAL DEFENCE.
United Press Association. By Electric lelegraph—Copyright.
(Reoeived April 21, 120 a.m.)
London, April 20.
Colonel Hutton, late Commandant of the New South Wales forces, read a paper before the Colonial Institute on defence. He said that it was time the Empire co-operated in a acheme of mutual defence under an elastic policy on the lines of the' Australian federal defence, controlled by a Council of Defence. One hundred and seventythree thousand federal militia were available on a basis of population for Imperial defence. Canada and Australia would supply 14,000 each and South Africa 7000. The additional troops available for local defence were 309,000, the Australasian proportion thereof being 12,571. Sir Saul Samuel said that when shown the necessity the colonies would share in the defence of the Empire. Sir Henry Norman stated that the colonies did not at present realise the necessity, but when in the face of war they would do all that was necessary. Major-General Beven Edwards suggested that a committee ought to be entrusted to declare authoritatively the requirements for the defence of the Empire.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9144, 21 April 1898, Page 3
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