AUSTRALIAN NAVY.
“ABSURD LITTLE SHIPS.” “Australia still seems to hanker after being a naval Power,” says the Aeroplane, in attacking the proposal to add a further cruiser in the next defence programme, instead of adding to the air force. “A few years ago,” it states, “Australia spent millions of pounds on two absurd little ships, for the price of which she could have bought and maintained an air force big enough to keep any conceivable Japanese fleet at least 50 miles from the coast.
“If japan attacked Australia the cruisers could only run, screaming on the wireless that the Japanese armada was approaching. They would never see the Japanese fleet because they would be destroyed from the air before the visitors hove in sight.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 2
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124AUSTRALIAN NAVY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 2
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