N.Z. DEFENCE
VISITOR’S OPINION
(Per Press Association.— Copyright.) AUCKLAND, December 6.
A conviction that New Zealand has no defence problem, as long as Singapore base is maintained, was expressed by Admiral P. W. Dumas, retired, who arrived to-day on a health trip. He said . Australia and New Zealand had n h immediate defence problem. In his opinion they had ten to 15 years in which to make prosperity. .To be successful in an offensive in this part of the woild, a foreign nation would have to break the enemy’s line .of communication. Speaking on . the European situation, he said there might fie trouble in the soring over the plebiscite.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1934, Page 6
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