AUSTRALIA AND THE EMPIRE
SIR GEORGE REID'S IDEAS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 18, At the A ughi-Sux>m’s Clnli .1 jnti' r. Sir Gilbert i'.uker presiding, Sir (.. Real, in responding I" the toast o! "Our Guest." said whatever the terms \ controlling the relation of the Austral- ( tan Navy or the navies of the "liicr Dominions to the British Navy, Ausiialian ships must he ready iu find \ themselves as near tile Empire's future "Trafalgar" as possible and he knew A that was win re tiic Australian ships , would 1". H" had no fear for Britain while its people could show their nil ■) eestors at I ribntes. lb- added that it would not. h< wise to depend on a j branch • ! (he Anglo Saxon nice not m y tic Empire, or any !'®- ally -t . friciul with vvl; ■’:! we had understanding;;. E' -L l. landings vuiv v.-ty good - |hin:> and slioidd 1"- cultivated. liiil We wau'eil some! lung I • i 111111 litem. ( He did not know what an iindeistandmg could he worth, considering even . a treaty is worth lilth- or nothing m ' an emergency si niggle iiclwecii nations, which struggles in "tu- huni ( or another are inevitable. I h'-iv was a greater danger to us, ("ihaps, in tinlaboratories of Hu foreign count ims, than in their doekyaids
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 3
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