WARNING UTTERED
BY A BRITISH ADMIRAL COMPARISONS OF FORCES (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received August E>, 2 p.m.) Melbourne, August o. Roar- Admiral Hyde uttered a Warning regarding the inadequacy of the naval defences of tlin empire. “1 -am convinced that we are damned unless we wake up to what the sea means in us. If w'e do nq recognise that it i h the end of the Biitisli Empire and of our White Australia. Siam has 4800 naval .officers and men ( hiii has 76<>0 and Australia, only 3100. At the close of the Napoleonic wai' S Great Britain’s naval complement- numbered 150,000. To-day the 1 naval force of the entire Empire is about 00,000. ’’
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3797, 15 August 1932, Page 8
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