INADEQUATE DEFENCE
AUSTRALIA VULNERABLE
MR. W. M. HUGHES TO FORE
SYDNEY, September 20. There has been considerable' discussion in the Australian Press lately regarding the inadequacy of Australia's defences, and Mr. W. M. Hughes has been a prominent figure in the agitation to awaken, interest in the danger of aggression. A public meeting at Sydney convened by the Lord Mayor today.decided to form a citizens' national defence committee, which will be entirely noa* political. , • v ■ ' ■ ' Mr. Hughes, as chief speaker, d«« clared that the world was seething witk.'. unrest. Australia could not continue to go' without arms in a world without liberty. Never was there such a country as Australia, so inviting and so vulnerable. The meeting passed a resolution ia favour of the rehabilitation of the Australian defences on a sound practical basis and that a sustained effort be made to bring the voluntary training system up to full strength as desire} by the military authorities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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157INADEQUATE DEFENCE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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