AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.
NO GUNS AND NO AMMUNITION. Press Association— Telegraph—Copyright. ALELBOURNE, March 15. (Received Alarch 16, at 10.27 ami.) Lieutenant-colonel Ballanger intends to resign the command of the Victorian artillery. He complains that he has held the artillery command for three years practically without guns. The department is in a ridiculous position, in regard to the new 18-pounders ordered Rom Europe. A number of gong are on hand, but they are incomplete, ami there is no ammunition for them.
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Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 6
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79AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 6
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