AUSTRALIA'S NAVAL POLICY. A LOCAL FLEET PREFERRED.
Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.! LONDON, 21st- July. Commander Biddlecombe, writing to kno Standard, says it is a wrong policy for Australia to give a Dreadnought to the Imperial Government. The £2,000,COO ought to be spent on a ioeal fleet, forming part of the Imperial Navy. Instead of building cruisers, the writer Rugj^ests that Australia might lease four cruisers belonging to Britain's reserve, and when out of date these ships should be returned and others leased. 0
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 July 1909, Page 7
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83AUSTRALIA'S NAVAL POLICY. A LOCAL FLEET PREFERRED. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 July 1909, Page 7
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