INVASION A POSSIBILITY
AUSTRALIA'S INCREASED DEFENCE MEASURES ORIGINAL PROGRAMME DWARFED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, November 24. (Received November 24, at 1 p.m.)' The ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’s Canberra correspondent says the defence plans which the Federal Ministry, now envisages will dwarf the threeyear programme announced by Mf Lyons last April. The programme announoed in. April was estimated to cost £43,000,000, and the programme that the Ministry now contemplates will cost £60,000,000, possibly £70,000.000. The Ministers are satisfied that the original programme must be greatly, expanded, because they are convinced that the whole basis of Australia’s preparations for an emergency has changed. In the past it has been assumed that Australia’s danger _would lie in coastal raids and attacks on the seaborne trade. ; Now it is admitted that the possibility of an invasion cannot be ignored. The defence expenditure in the future, therefore, is likely to be concentrated on the Amy and Air Forces, with the object of repulsing a largescale attack.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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160INVASION A POSSIBILITY Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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