AN AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 22 July 1909, Page 5

AN AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

COMMANDER .BIDDLECOMBE'S .VIEW.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

JW)NDOM, July 21.

writing

Commander Biddlecombe,

to the Standard, says it is a wrong policy on the part of Australia to give a Dreadnought to. tfee British navy. Tlie two millions ought to have bean spent on at local fleet fanning a, pai't of the Impark! navy. Ins/Dead of buading cruisers, .Australia, he says, might lease four cruisers belonging to Britain's reserve. When ouib of date) * the ships could be returned and others leased.