AUSTRALIA
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] FACTORY ON FIRE. SYDNEY, August 15. Damage estimated at about £lO.OOO was done by a spectacular fire which destroyed the clothing factory of J. F. Robinson and Sons in the city. A COLD SNAP. SYDNEY, August 15. A severe cold snap is being experienced in eastern and south New South Wales and Victoria. Snowfalls occurred in many places, and the lofty ranges, tin South Australia, had a light covering, a rarity in that State, Blue Mountain centres report two to three inches of snow, and travellers from Kosciusco to Cooma and Canberra are held up by drifts on the roads.
NAVAL DEFENCES. MELBOURNE, August 15.
Rear-Admiral Hyde uttered a warning regarding the inadequacy of the naval defences of the Empire: “I am convinced we are damned, unless we wake up to what the sea. means to us,” he said. “If we do not recognise that it is the end of the British Empire and of our White Australia.”
He said that Siam had 5800 naval officers and men, Chile 7660, and Australia 3100. At the close of the Napoleonic wars Great Britain’s naval complement numbered 150,000. Now the naval force of the entire Empire was about 90,000. .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1932, Page 9
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