CRUISER CONTRACTS
hklping British industry. LONDON. .Tune S, In a statement to ‘The Times’ in connection with the Australian cruiser and submarine contracts placed in Britain, the Australian High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cookl said Australia was determined (o bear her fair share of the burden of Imperial defence on the principle (hat the primary responsibility of each dominion was to provide its own local defence, which could bo best maintained behind a screen of combined Kmpiie fleets. It was fortunate, that the contracts were platted in Britain at, a time when (ho British shipbuilding industry was suffering so severely from foreign competition. Tin's indicated Australia’s desire to support British imhistrv.
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Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 1
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110CRUISER CONTRACTS Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 1
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