AUSTRALIA'S SPLENDID BEGINNING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S SPLENDID BEGINNING.

MOST BRITISH OF THE

DOMINIONS

(Received April 18, 10.10 a.m.) - ' SYDNEY, April 18.' . Lord De-nman, at a farewell dinner, discussing defence, sajcl" that maybe the expenditure to which it was committed would prove a?strain on the resources of the Commonwealth, yet the maintenance of the highest possible standard was worthy of every effort. Australia had made a splendid beginning, and it would be a sad i thing if her efforts were relaxed. I Lord Denman added that Australia I was the most British of all the •; Dominions. He would interview Mr ■5 Churchill arid put before him the | Australian view of the naval question.