CRUISERS FOR AUSTRALIA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 5

CRUISERS FOR AUSTRALIA.

TO SUPPLEMENT THE

TORPEDOERS.

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(Received May 13, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 13. The Labour candidates for the Senate opened their campaign with a big meeting in the Protestant Hall last night. Mr Fisher, referring to naval defence, said that if the Government remained in power they intended to supplement .the torpedoers with cruisers, on which they would train their own men.